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Armstrong Siddeley Motors minutes of a meeting to review the Python position
Catalogue reference: PA1716/5/5/115
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- PA1716/5/5/115
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Title (The name of the record)
- Armstrong Siddeley Motors minutes of a meeting to review the Python position
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Date (When the record was created)
- 27 February 1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 Development position: 63 hours running have been carried out , making a total of 10,119 hours. P.105 has been carrying out tests on the widened propeller shaft gear and two 10-hour tests have been carried out successfully, one at 2000 HP and one at 2500 HP. The condition of the gear at the end of these tests was satisfactory and a similar gear will be submitted to a 25-hour category test in order to obtain flight clearance 2 1 Second row blade failure 2 2 Acceleration control 3 Reverse switch 4 Oil pump failures 5 Gun heating on the Wyvern 6 Idling jet pipe temperature in the Wyvern 7 Propeller failure 8 PCU drive failure 9 Jet pipe temperature control 10 C.7 booster coils 11 Diaphragm material
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Coventry Archives & Research Centre
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- ASM Python/compressor failure
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 Item
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/5aba4e5d-f68b-412e-8ec1-cafb20f2e010/
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This record is held at Coventry Archives & Research Centre
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