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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).
Instructions for the production, testing, and despatch of two sets of ignition wires for tank engines.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 163\2\  img064
Date  1st August 1933
  
from RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/CEP: x6008
c. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.
c. Stores)
RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/CEP3/MS1.8.33.

Y.S.Y. 1039 - Q/54105 - Ctt. T/555. (D.C. 2).

In accordance with RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/EM2/MS19.6.33, you were instructed to produce 2 sets of Ignition Wires suitable for Tank engines.

Later, instructions were issued to stop work on these wires and store them pending further instructions.

We have now received a further instruction from the War Office to proceed with the assembling and testing of these 2 sets of Ignition Wires on Tank engines.

Will TT. please arrange to get these wires from the Experimental Dept. Stores and will Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. kindly make the necessary arrangements for testing them.

When completed, the above Ignition Wires should be sent into the Despatch Stores for despatch to, The Chief Ordnance Officer, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London. S.E. 18.

RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/CEP.
  
  


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