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 Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. detailing tests on the effect of boiling Ethylene Glycol on rubber and 'Klingerite' packing material.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 151\3\ scan0101 | |
| Date | 20th August 1929 | |
| FORM ICI 485 X1435 IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED. TELEGRAMS: IMPKEMIX, LEICESTER. TELEPHONE: CENTRAL 60294. (Logo: NATIONAL SCHEME FOR DISABLED MEN) SELLING AGENTS FOR: BRITISH DYESTUFFS CORPORATION, LTD. BRUNNER MOND & CO., LIMITED. THE BUXTON LIME FIRMS COMPANY, LIMITED. THE CASTNER-KELLNER ALKALI COMPANY, LIMITED. CHANCE AND HUNT, LIMITED. ELECTRO BLEACH & BY-PRODUCTS, LIMITED. NITRAM LIMITED. SYNTHETIC AMMONIA & NITRATES, LIMITED. THE UNITED ALKALI COMPANY, LIMITED. MORLEY HOUSE, LONDON ROAD, LEICESTER. OUR REF. AAS/MWW YOUR REF. 20th August 1929. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, ETHYLENE GLYCOL. Further to the recent correspondence regarding this product, we give you herewith further particulars in the hope that they will be of interest. (1) Our Research Department have made a test on the action of boiling Ethylene Glycol on Rubber, and find that the Rubber is quickly destroyed. (2) The packing material sold as "Klingerite" is not affected by Ethylene Glycol, and this packing we use in the plant for the manufacture of this product. With regard to No.1; this, of course, is a very drastic test, and at the temperature of boiling Glycol rubber in any circumstances could not last long, so that the best thing for you to do would be to carry out tests on the packing or jointing material you use, or propose to use, under the conditions that [Handwritten note across the page:] H {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} /P [crossed out] 'B' engine our connection rubber seams and my up of gel We might try actual time to destroy rubber By | ||