Letter from Vauxhall Motors Ltd concerning valve spring wire data and testing substitutes for Swedish wire.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\4\ scan0218 | |
| Date | 6th June 1940 | |
| 1097 Vauxhall Motors Ltd LUTON. BEDS. TELEPHONE NUMBER 2600 LUTON TELEGRAMS CARVAUX, TELEX, LUTON WHEN REPLYING PLEASE QUOTE → OUR REF: 289/AT/IF YOUR REF: Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 11/JMS 6th June, 1940. W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Limited, Derby. Dear Robotham, I am happy to see you back on the job. I am passing the data on valve spring wire along to our Metallurgist, and he may obtain sample springs or some wire. We are still using Swedish wire, but substitutes are on test and not going good. Yours sincerely, Alex Taub. c.c. Mr. Bavister. | ||
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).