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 Vauxhall Motors requesting sources for silico-manganese steel used in wrist pins.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\4\ scan0013 | |
| Date | 12th October 1936 | |
| Vauxhall Motors Ltd CONTRACTORS TO THE ADMIRALTY, WAR OFFICE & AIR MINISTRY. LUTON. BEDS. TELEPHONE NUMBER 2600 LUTON. TELEGRAMS CARVAUX, TELEX, LUTON WHEN REPLYING PLEASE QUOTE → OUR REF: YOUR REF: October 12th, 1936. Mr. Robotham, Chief Designing Engineer, Rolls Royce Ltd. Derby. My dear Robotham, I am back in England again to spend a few months in connection with our problems over here. One of these seems to be the possibility of securing silico-manganese steel which is sufficiently clean and free from non-metallic inclusions as to give a sufficiently high life under torsional fatigue. This is in connection with the front suspension of the recently announced 25 h.p car. I have just received a cable from Maurice Olley as follows:- "Suggest ask Rolls Royce for English Sources Clean Silico Manganese they have used in Wrist Pins for years". Would you be so kind as to let me have the addresses of sources which have been making the silico-manganese steel referred to by Olley. So far we have not been able to locate any over here that seems to fill the bill. Anything else that you can tell me in connection with this will be highly appreciated. Kindest personal regards, Sincerely yours, Walter D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} Appel. | ||