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).
The design and production of a No. 2 Service Tool Box for a Naval Gun.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\3\ img280 | |
| Date | 12th December 1940 | |
| 3 To Mr. [redacted] (Patt shop) c. to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to [redacted] Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH.3/SW.12.12.40. re Tool Boxes for Naval Gun. Please receive herewith 1 blueprint of the following :- QPL.163 No.2 Service Tool Box. This tool box is in addition to the No.1 Service Tool Box to QPL.162, which was instructed under cover of memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH.1/SW.28.11.40. Will you please make up a tool box to suit, to enable us to submit same to the Admiralty for approval. Will HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/LB. please arrange to produce and supply the steel angle pieces on the corners of the box, and forward them to the pattern shop. We handed to Mr. Bradley an advance print of QPL.163 last Thursday, to enable him to proceed with the main body of the box. Also attached is a modified print of QPL.162, on which we have indicated the rope attachment at the end of the box. -------------------- Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. | ||