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Memo from HR Watson AWA to Mr Woodhams AWA: Apollo civil rating engines

Catalogue reference: PA1716/5/5/31

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PA1716/5/5/31
Title
Memo from HR Watson AWA to Mr Woodhams AWA: Apollo civil rating engines
Date
9 March 1950
Description

The memo is complaining that the performance figures do not match those given in a letter from Armstrong Siddeley Motors 9 November 1949. He says that the engines fall short by 50 HP each and that the absolute range has been reduced from 1250 miles to 1130 miles

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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Former department reference
ASM Python/AWA Apollo
Language
English
Physical description
1 Item
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/74c0cdc4-1027-4d4f-8380-b1eaa2f1de0b/

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Memo from HR Watson AWA to Mr Woodhams AWA: Apollo civil rating engines