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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).
Letter chasing up test results for a failed calorstat returned to S. Smith & Sons Ltd.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 156\2\  scan0193
Date  15th February 1939
  
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Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} 19/ER

15th February, 1939.

Messrs. S. Smith & Sons Ltd.,
Cricklewood Works,
London N.W.2.

For the attention of Mr Eckford.

Dear Sirs,

On the 2nd January, we returned to you a calorstat which had failed on a Bentley chassis B 55 LE after 8,087 miles. Our letter, Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Ed{J. L. Edwards} 1/JH of the same date referred to this calorstat.

Will you please let us know the results of your tests on this instrument, and whether you have yet returned it to us.

Yours faithfully,
p.p. Rolls Royce, Ltd.,
  
  


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