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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).
The failure and subsequent repair of a Lucas P.100 headlamp on an 18-EX vehicle.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 61a\2\  scan0001
Date  4th January 1929 guessed
  
X.7800
Extract from FJA2/C.4.1.29

LUCAS P.100 HEADLAMPS ON 18-EX (IN FRANCE)

One of these lamps failed owing to poor contact of the central plunger on to the bulb, burning the insulation and spoiling the spring. A plunger from an old tail lamp was adapted to the P.100 lamp which has not failed since.
  
  


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