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 Joseph Sankey & Sons discussing the manufacture of cores, bars, and laminations.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 60\4\ Scan193 | |
| Date | 14th November 1933 | |
| JOSEPH SANKEY & SONS, LIMITED. BILSTON. CONTINUATION. SHEET NO. November 14th..1933. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ld. We are therefore putting a core in hand made from this material, complete with 16 Gauge Fibre Endplates. The blue print that the writer brought away with him D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} 54292 does not give the number of slots, but we assume that you require 24 slots as in previous stampings. Amongst other points discussed was the question of "Lohys" rectangular bars. If you will send us along a specification we will get a price from the rollers, to whom we supply "Lohys" Billets. With regard to the Starter Motor Laminations for which you sent us an enquiry, we are going into the cost of these, made from .018" "Lohys", and we will send off our quotation either tonight or tomorrow. Another point discussed was whether we could make these Laminations by slotting them on an angle. The writer has thought this matter over, and the only way that it could be done would be by having a very special machine designed and made. As the point raised is a very interesting one, we propose putting a draughtsman on the job to see whether it is possible to design such a machine. If so, we shall probably make one up because other customers would be interested as well as your goodselves, but in any case it would be at least 12 months before anything of the [Handwritten note in margin: Written RB{R. Bowen}] | ||