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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).
Letter from Rotherham & Sons regarding a patent application for a new lubrication system to compete with the 'Alemite' system.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 76\4\  scan0262
Date  9th February 1921
  
Copy of letter received from:-

Rotherham & Sons,
Coventry.

Please reply to:- Engineering Dept. HNS/NGB.

9-2-21.

Messrs.Rolls-Royce Ltd.,
Nightingale Road,
D E R B Y.

Dear Sirs,

Ref.-Wd{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead}/Ms14/FJ8.2.21.

In answer to yours of the 8th inst. We have applied for a Patent on a device which is intended to compete with the "Alemite" system of lubrication. Our experiments seem to be successful and we hope shortly to be able to send you a sample for inspection. We hope, therefore, that you will be able to wait a week or two before definitely placing your orders elsewhere.

Yours faithfully,

ROTHERHAM & SONS LTD.
(Sgd.) H.Nelson Smith.
Engineering Department.

[Stamp: ENCLOSURE 402 "JUSTSO"]
  
  


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