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).
Requesting an order for metal cylinder head gaskets of a specific thickness for a Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\4\ Scan374 | |
| Date | 13th July 1933 | |
| P3031? To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}5/KT.13.7.33. METAL CYLINDER HEAD GASKETS. We recently asked you to order for us some metal cylinder head gaskets for the Bentley. These were about .012" thick. We require some gaskets half way between this and the C & A which are at present standard. We do not know whether the C & A people could supply a washer as thin as .025" but this is the thickness we require. If not, perhaps the nickel people would make up what we want. Will you please obtain half a dozen of them for us. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||