Letter from a supplier discussing the progress and dispatch of four back plates.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 9\5\ 05-page105 | |
| Date | 13th July 1937 | |
| 646 JONAS WOODHEAD & SONS LTD., ALLAN G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} KYLE,(Chairman & Managing) KENNETH A. {Mr Adams} E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} MOORE, F.C.A. THOMAS H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} SANDERS, M.I.MECH.E. JONAS WOODHEAD. KIRKSTALL ROAD, LEEDS, 4. TELEGRAMS: FORGE, LEEDS. TELEPHONES: LEEDS { 20814. 20815. YOUR REF._________ OUR REF. THS/BMM R.Leslie Esq., Messrs.Rolls Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, Derby. July 13th 1937 Dear Mr.Leslie, As promised, after the receipt of your telephone message, I went into the Works to see how these four back plates were progressing. I found three of them practically finished, but in the fourth, the drill had run out, and we were having to replace it. As you will realise, it is a very awkward job drilling a small hole through the plate thickness, and we have had to put a spot weld there in order to guide the drill. As you remarked, you close the scarf aperture with a tube, but we in drilling, have to get over this gap somehow, and the only way we can do it is by a spot weld. Anyway, I am hoping to despatch the four of these plates to you tomorrow on the 5.22 p.m. train direct to Derby, and I will confirm this later by wire, so that you can collect them at Derby Station at 7.35. Yours truly, THSanders | ||
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).