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 concerning a sample of 3' diameter flexible rubber hose for car heater duct connections.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 137\2\ scan0199 | |
| Date | 2nd November 1938 | |
| ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY NOT TO INDIVIDUALS 1158 TELEGRAMS: RUBBER LEYLAND TELEPHONE: Nº 81434. CODES USED: WESTERN UNION-5 LETTER EDITION & BENTLEY'S. THE LEYLAND & BIRMINGHAM RUBBER Co. LTD. INDIA RUBBER & ASBESTOS MANUFACTURERS AND WATERPROOFERS BRANCHES: LONDON 31/35 WILSON STREET FINSBURY E.C.2 BIRMINGHAM 261 CORPORATION STREET CARDIFF HARROWBY STREET "DOCKS" GLASGOW JAMES T. GOUDIE & Cº 52, ST ENOCH SQUARE. DUBLIN 83 MIDDLE ABBEY STREET JOHANNESBURG BARSFORF'S BUILDINGS CALCUTTA 12 MISSION ROW BUENOS AIRES CALLE SOLIS, 439. WORKS LEYLAND NEAR PRESTON MARYHILL GLASGOW MITCHAM SURREY MEATH WORKS DUBLIN REGISTERED OFFICE: LEYLAND NEAR PRESTON ENGLAND REFERENCE: AHR/JC Motor Sales. 2nd November 1938 h/o thru /SJD [Handwritten] Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Ref: RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/STD.19/MH{M. Huckerby} Dear Sirs, Attention of Mr. Steadman, Experimental Department. We wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, with regard to 3" diameter flexible rubber hose for car heater duct connections, and have noted your remarks. We are sending under separate cover to-day a sample length of hose of heavier construction with the wire more securely anchored, which you will notice is now very flexible and will bend to a radius of 2.1/4". [Handwritten words "now" and "very" inserted into the sentence] We should like you to test this length and favour us with your report thereon, and hope that this will prove to be a solution to your problem. Assuring you of our best attention at all times. Yours faithfully, FOR THE COMPANY, A.H.Rigby [Signature] [Left Margin Text] All Contracts and Orders are booked, and Quotations given, subject to our right to withdraw or cancel same (without liability on our part), by reason of the interruption of due delivery, short supplies, or abnormally affected prices of, Raw Material, arising from Strikes, Fire, or through causes beyond our control. [Bottom Left Stamp] NATIONAL SCHEME FOR DISABLED MEN | ||