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Referee's report by David Randall Pye, on a paper 'The friction of lubricated metals' by Frank Philip Bowden and L Leben

Reference number: RR/66/34

Date: November 1939

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Sectional Committee: Engineering

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper contains an improvement on the experimental technique. If the paper requires shortening for the Proceedings, this should be possible in the second half.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 15 November 1939.

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RR/66/34
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November 1939
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Standardised form (type E)
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2 pages
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Typescript

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David Randall Pye

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David Randall Pye, Referee's report by David Randall Pye, on a paper 'The friction of lubricated metals' by Frank Philip Bowden and L Leben, November 1939, RR/66/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_66_34/referees-report-by-david-randall-pye-on-a-paper-the-friction-of-lubricated-metals-by-frank-philip-bowden-and-l-leben, accessed on 11 August 2026

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