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).
Testing cylinder bores by sending a block to Rovers for chromium plating.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 122\4\ scan0219 | |
| Date | 16th January 1939 | |
| -2- for finding out whether our bores are reliable, or not. We should like to submit a block to Rovers forthwith and ask them to do some short chromium plating on it. I have written to then and asked if we could send a block. (Visit Monday) Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||