Urgent and secret request for rotor, gland, and bearing assemblies for an undisclosed job.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\3\ scan0285 | |
| Date | 13th January 1941 | |
| To Roy {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} /AES. from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} 126G Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} 7/ET.13.1.41. Re your memo Roy {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} /AES.1/MH. {M. Huckerby} 11.1.41, and enclosure No.25, we appreciate the spares position, but would you write and ask them if we could have 2 more ROTOR and GLAND assemblies and 2 bearing assemblies. These parts are required for an urgent job, the nature of which we cannot disclose. They are not required for a BUICK car, but something very important. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||
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).