Letter to The Northern Rubber Co. requesting a sample of Neoprene tubing for testing as a flexible petrol pipe.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\6\ scan0015 | |
| Date | 9th September 1937 | |
| Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /JBD. {John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} 16/MH. {M. Huckerby} 9th. September 1937. Messrs. The Northern Rubber Co., Retford. Dear Sirs, We understand from the Imperial Chemical Industries that you may be in a position to manufacture Neoprene tubing. If this is the case, we should be interested to receive a sample length of such tubing having an internal bore of 3/8", so that we could submit it to test with a view to using it for a flexible petrol pipe. Ultimately it would probably be necessary to have the tube armoured in some way, but if you have no armoured tubing available a plain sample would be of interest. 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).