Requesting a status update on aluminium pistons, with a handwritten note about scrapped castings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\2\ Scan004 | |
| Date | 2nd December 1915 | |
| W. H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} 226 A (500 H) (S. B. 80. 12-10-15) G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 1278. 1416 (Alex) Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 14/T/W21215. 2.12.15. RE. ALUMINIUM PISTONS. With reference to my memo EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 13/T/L111115, Lieut.Kendall is now asking what has been done with these. We shall be glad if you will report either to him or to me what is the present position. EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} Handwritten note: 12 castings rec'd for White City & six of these are scrapped It is the old design that are OK & the Zephyr type are scrap. | ||
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).