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).
Order for new carburettors as the existing ones sent for modification are now considered obsolete.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 122\3\ scan0116 | |
| Date | 24th March 1939 | |
| 1033 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to G/JWH.from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GR.{George Ratcliffe} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GR.{George Ratcliffe}16/JH.24.3.39. The Zenith Carburetter Company informs us that the six carburetters recently despatched by Experimental Department for modification up to Wraith specification are in the main obsolete, and suggest that it would be cheaper for us to take six new instruments off the line. Will you therefore please forward an order for six 'C' series Wraith carburetters to - The Zenith Carburetter Co.Ltd., Honeypot Lane, Stanmore, Middlesex. O/N.52439. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GR.{George Ratcliffe} | ||