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 a supplier, Spauldings Ltd, regarding a delay in supplying Spauldite interleaving strips.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154a\2\ scan0124 | |
| Date | 19th June 1939 | |
| 1305 Spauldings LD Gloucester Way : Clerkenwell : London : ECI Telegrams-Vulcafibra Phone-London Telephone-Terminus 1141 (5 Lines) Our Ref: C/SA. 19th June, 1939. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., DERBY. For the attention of Mr. Martindale. Dear Sirs, We received your telegram instructing us to cut a small supply of Spauldite interleaving strips 56" x 2" x .031" and despatch them to you today. We are exceedingly sorry that it is not possible for us to do this. We hope to have some sheets here tomorrow from the mills long enough to cut 56" in which case we will despatch the strips to you on Tuesday or Wednesday. If there is any difficulty over the length we will communicate with you immediately. Yours faithfully, pp. SPAULDINGS LTD. H.J.W.Couzens. Other products--see overleaf Actual manufacturers of - highest-grade Vulcanised Fibre, hard and flexible, including Spauldings' Super Grey 'Armite' brand of Leatheroid, Oil and Water packing. Spaulding-Bakelite - Horn Fibre and Flaxite - Ebonite. Presspahn - Special machined shapes of the above. | ||