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).
Requesting an official order for 32 rubber blocks from British Goodrich Burton.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 138\1\ scan0247 | |
| Date | 9th April 1936 | |
| X 1160 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}2/JH.9.4.36. Will you please send an official order to Messrs. British Goodrich Burton, for 32 Rubber blocks 1 1/2 dia, 3/8 thick. with 3/8 hole Durometer Hardness 70. These have been supplied to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Order No. 54317. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.Dodd. | ||