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Letter declining an offer to test composite steel brake drums.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 120\3\  scan0079
Date  1st January 1934
  
X4456

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 8/KW.

1st January, 1934.

Messrs. Pratt & Manley,
23, Guildhall Buildings,
Navigation Street,
Birmingham.

Dear Sirs,

We thank you for your letter of the 29th December.

Owing to the urgency of other work, and the satisfaction given by our present brake drums, we are not in a position to test your composite steel ones.

Yours faithfully,

For ROLLS-ROYCE LTD.
  
  
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).


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