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 Automotive Products Company regarding the return of jacks with a revised locking method and patent issues with a pump.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 140\2\ scan0021 | |
| Date | 16th June 1937 | |
| 1166 AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD DIRECTORS: E B BOUGHTON, W EMMOTT, D T BROCK Exclusive European Distributors & Spares Depots for:- HERCULES ENGINES TIMKEN AXLES "LOCKHEED" HYDRAULIC BRAKES FULLER TRANSMISSIONS BORG & BECK CLUTCHES LAVINE STEERING GEARS "PUROLATOR" THE OIL FILTER THOMPSON ECCENTRIC TIE RODS G & K "AUTODUCT" LINK V-BELTING (Logo: THE SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS & TRADERS) TELEPHONE: LEAMINGTON SPA 1400 Tachbrook Road Leamington Spa TELEGRAMS: AUTODUCTS PHONE LEAMINGTON SPA REG OFFICE: BROCK HOUSE LANGHAM ST.{Capt. P. R. Strong} LONDON W.I. SCANDINAVIA: SVEAVAGEN 77, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Our Ref:- CC/IM - A.104. Your Ref:- RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GRY{Shadwell Grylls}/B/AP. 16th June, 1937. GRYLLS Messrs. Rolls Royce Limited D E R B Y. For the attention of EXPERIMENTAL DEPT: Dear Sirs, We beg to acknowledge receipt of your favour of the 15th instant, and are pleased to note that you are quite clear that the Jacks have not been dismantled at your works at any time. If therefore you would have the others in your possession returned to us, we will apply our revised method of locking, to these, and return without further delay. With regard to your last paragraph, unfortunately - assuming that the pump you are using now has a rubber cup in which various control valves are fixed - we are not able to reproduce any similar to this without infringement of patents. We are continuing to pursue this matter, however, and hope eventually to produce a satisfactory arrangement. Would you please, in returning the Jacks, mark them for the attention of this Department. Yours faithfully, AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD., C. CLENCH, Development Department. (Left Margin Text) Quotations and Contracts are subject to revision of Duty, Transportation Costs, and to acceptance by the Factory, also to unforeseen delays arising from strikes, lockouts, transportation, war, &c., and force majeure. | ||