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).
Request from the Admiralty for the scrap value of unrequired Oerlikon mounting adapters.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\3\ img228 | |
| Date | 19th October 1940 | |
| HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/Mr. Priestley. from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}7/ML.19.10.40. We have had a note from the Admiralty asking us what is the value of the scrap involved, due to making adapters for the Oerlikon mounting which will not now be required. I would be glad to know :- 1, The expenditure involved. 2, The value of the pieces as scrap. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||