Request to replace existing 30 gallon tanks with 100 gallon tanks and to whitewash and paint No.5 test house.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0163 | |
| Date | 31th March 1936 | |
| x1209 To EJJ. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 10/KW.31.3.36. In conjunction with the erection of the new petrol tank platform outside No.5 test house, will you please replace the 2 existing 30 gallon tanks by 100 gallon tanks for the beds in this No.5 test house. Will you instruct that No.5 be whitewashed and painted throughout, if possible at a week-end, so that there is no hold up in the running of the engines. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /L.H.Swindall. | ||
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).