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 from Spauldings Ltd regarding a quotation for washers and providing alternative material samples.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\1\ scan0211 | |
| Date | 4th April 1938 | |
| SPAULDINGS LTD 40 Gloucester Way, Clerkenwell, London EC1 Telegrams - Vulcafibra-Phone-London Telephone - Terminus 1141 (4 Lines) Our Ref: C/SA. Your Ref: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.2/AP. 4th April, 1938. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter of the 1st inst. with reference to Rubber Pump Seal Washers. We are looking into the question of material to specify your requirements, but meantime we are submitting our quotation for the washers in Red Flexible Fibre and Spauldings Oil & Water Packing. We are sending you samples of these materials, and should appreciate it if you would consider these, as we think it possible they would meet with your requirements. Yours faithfully, pp. SPAULDINGS LTD. H.J.W. Couzens. ENCL. Actual manufacturers of - highest-grade Vulcanised Fibre, hard and flexible, including Spauldings Super Grit, 'Armite' brand of Leatheroid, Oil-and-Water packing - Spaulding-Bakelite - Horn Fibre and Flaxite - Ebonite - Presspahn - Special machined shapes of the above Handwritten notes: Top centre: 1269. Top right: Noted Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/STO | ||