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 Le Carbone Ltd. regarding trial brushes for lighting set dynamos and providing technical data.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 166\1\ img074 | |
| Date | 29th April 1936 | |
| r609S. CONTRACTORS TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, CORPORATIONS & PRINCIPAL RAILWAYS, &c. LE CARBONE LTD. (Formerly LE CARBONE, Estd. 1890.) SPENCER HOUSE, SOUTH PLACE, LONDON, E.C.2. ENGLAND. A.B.C. Code 4th & 5th Universal Trade Code. Telephone : National 4536/7. Telegrams : Lacombe, Ave, London. BATTERY WORKS : PORTSLADE, SUSSEX. The Le Carbone Products are known throughout the World. CARBON BRUSHES for all types of Electrical Machines. ELECTRO-GRAPHITIC CARBON FAN, MAGNETO and Automobile Brushes CARBON PACKING RINGS CARBONS for Telephone Apparatus WELDING CARBONS Givrite Resistances. "A D" (Air Depolarising) PRIMARY CELLS for large and small outputs. -- WET CELLS DRY CELLS H.T. BATTERIES. DIRECTORS : R.{Sir Henry Royce} OPPENHEIM (FRENCH) CAPTN. R.{Sir Henry Royce} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} PINTO (BRITISH) URMSON WILLAN (BRITISH) 29th April, 1936. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Derby. Dear Sirs, Your Ref. ROY{Sir Henry Royce}9/M.G. Our Ref. 985/P.7958 For attention of Mr West. Brushes for Lighting set Dynamos. We thank you very much for the interview granted to our Mr. Lawrance who had the pleasure of calling upon you on the 28th instant and are very pleased to learn that our trial brushes submitted on the 5th September last are undergoing tests and that our EG3397 has given you good results so far. Needless to say we shall be only too pleased to hear further from you on the subject in due course and in response to Mr. West's request for technical data of the 3 grades submitted we have pleasure in giving you this information which you will find on page 42 of the enclosed Technical Brochure enabling you to make the necessary comparison. Incidentally we feel sure that this book will be very interesting to you as it was compiled from experiments conducted in our own Laboratories over a period and has been greatly appreciated by the leading designers. In assuring you of our interest and attention, We are, Yours faithfully, for LE CARBONE LTD. R/D Enc:- T.B. | ||