Letter from Elliott Brothers to Rolls-Royce requesting the required length of a flexible drive for a revolution counter on a plane.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\2\ 02-page06 | |
| Date | 24th October 1917 | |
| CONTRACTORS TO THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. ELLIOTT BROTHERS (LONDON) LTD. Established 1800. ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. FACTORY: CENTURY WORKS, LEWISHAM, LONDON, S.E.13. MEMBERS OF: THE BRITISH ELECTRICAL & ALLIED MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION. THE ENGINEERS & EMPLOYERS' FEDERATION. THE SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS & TRADERS LTD. OUR REFERENCE: AWA/R. TELEPHONE 4415, 4416 VICTORIA. TELEGRAMS 'ELLIOTTIZE, VIC, LONDON'. 1, CENTRAL BUILDINGS, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, S.W.1. UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd: Nightingale Road, DERBY. 24th October 1917. Dear Sirs, Handwritten: Revolution Counter Handwritten: Reference Wd {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} /W11/E231017. We are in receipt of your letter of the 23rd inst., under above reference, regarding your order B.T.705, which shall receive our best attention, and we will anticipate this date as much as possible. We shall be much obliged if you will let us know the length of flexible drive required, as we have no particulars regarding the Plane mentioned. Thanking you in anticipation. Yours faithfully, for ELLIOTT BROTHERS (LONDON) LIMITED, [Signature] Director. Handwritten Note: Mr hives. Can we give them an approx. length of drive. C.C. hw. | ||
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).