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).
Quotation for the supply of 36% Nickel Steel, detailing price and coefficient of expansion.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154a\1\ scan0023 | |
| Date | 19th November 1918 | |
| TELEPHONE NO 3800 (8 LINES) INLAND TELEGRAMS: "CAMMELLAIRD, SHEFFIELD" CABLES: "CAMMELL, SHEFFIELD" CYCLOPS TRADE MARKS CAMEL CYCLOPS WC/EGS. ORDNANCE STEEL, TYRE & SPRING WORKS, GRIMESTHORPE, SHEFFIELD. YORKSHIRE STEEL & IRON WORKS, PENISTONE. SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING WORKS, BIRKENHEAD. LONDON OFFICE: 3, CENTRAL BUILDINGS, WESTMINSTER, S.W.I. CAMMELL LAIRD & CO., LIMITED. P. O.{Mr Oldham} BOX 41. Cyclops Steel & Iron Works, Sheffield. Your Ref: EFC3/AT151118. X.3407. 19th. November, 1918. IMPORTANT! IN YOUR REPLY PLEASE REFER TO SF:2606. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Limited, Nightingale Road, DERBY. Dear Sirs, re Invar Steel (Stamped Text: RECEIVED) (Stamped Text: R.C.D. 20 NOV 1918) We acknowledge your esteemed enquiry of the 15th. instant in which you ask if we are able to supply the above mentioned Steel, and have to say in reply that we can offer 36% Nickel Steel, Black Rolled, in bars 1/4" diameter by 40" long at the price of 4s/- (Four shillings) per lb. nett delivered your Works. The co-efficient of expansion is .00000115 for 1° Centigrade and we shall be glad to hear further from you at your convenience. Yours faithfully, CAMMELL LAIRD & Co. LIMITED, [Illegible Signature] Director | ||