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Mr. Royce's anxiety to switch rear axle production from steel castings to drop forgings.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 2\6\  B002_X 140 141 157-page080
Date  2nd September 1913
  
No. WGR32/T2913. Sept. 2nd. 1913.

Mr. Royce is very anxious that we make our rear axles in a drop forging as quickly as possible. As you are aware, we have had a lot of trouble with the present steel castings.

[Handwritten]
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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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