Letter from Wellworthy Piston Rings regarding a meeting report and querying the melting temperature of aluminium.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\5\ scan0173 | |
| Date | 16th November 1938 | |
| 11 C.T.S - Contradict where necessary in your summary WORKS TELEPHONE LYMINGTON 520 WORKS TELEGRAMS "WELLWORTHY" PRIVATE TELEPHONE LYMINGTON 232 MANAGING DIRECTOR'S OFFICE WELLWORTHY PISTON RINGS LTD. 1020a LYMINGTON HANTS JH/KES 16th November, 1938. W. R. {Sir Henry Royce} Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby. Dear Mr. Robotham, I am enclosing a copy of Mr. Blackith's report on the meeting with your goodselves on the 9th instant. You will see that he sums it up into nine points. Now, some of these points require an answer and I take it that the answers will be set down against the questions at the next meeting on the 22nd. Would you care to let me have a copy of your people's report on the meeting, because naturally no two people will see the position unless definite notes were taken and records made, and I think by comparing the notes of the various persons present, we shall then get down to finality. The only other point which seems to me to require clearing up is what is your melting temperature, because, looking through the report, it does not seem that anybody decided at what temperature this metal should be poured. As we know the melting temperature of aluminium has a great deal to do with the grain-size of the finished structure and, therefore, strength of the casting, I think it should be definitely stated what your practice is with regard to this question. Presumably the question of hardness, etc. will be cleared up by experiments taking place between the time of the last meeting and the next on the 22nd. I thought, if you would be good enough to go through these notes and hand them over to your people, you would be able to see the position as our people see it. I must | ||
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).