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).
Letter chasing an urgent, overdue order for carbon gland rings from The Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\3\ scan0296 | |
| Date | 27th February 1941 | |
| Pumps Water 1269 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Col.1/RH.{R. Hollingworth} 27th February, 1941. The Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd., Battersea Church Road, LONDON. S.W.11. Dear Sirs, Following our telephone conversation of 10.2.41, you advised us by telegram and confirmed by letter, ref. ZKB/BMS, date 10.2.41, that the carbon gland rings, piece number RE.2020, order number 39138, which you are making for us would be ready by 19.2.41. Up to the present, we have not received these parts, can you give us some further information, concerning this matter, as it is very urgent. Yours faithfully, for ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, | ||