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).
Request to place an order with the Lucas Company for 12 small type aero engine motors, type A.650.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\2\ scan 045 | |
| Date | 26th September 1918 | |
| R.R. 238 a (200 T SE 827. 21-2-18) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2129 EX. SEP 1918 X.3328 September 26. 1918. BY13/P26918. X.3/61 Mr Mills from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. EFC. c. Mr Hargreaves. Re X.3 RECEIVED Will you kindly place an order with the Lucas Company ordering 12 of their small type aero engine motors, type A.650 without reduction gear, which will be fitted up with armature shafts, as per dimensions given on blueprint herewith E.16800. Will you kindly point out to Messrs. Lucas that if they cannot produce the shafts to the accuracy required, that if they will complete the shaft drawing by adding their dimensions, we can make the shafts for them here and supply them to them in order that they might build up the armatures on same. The motors are required without end plates. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||