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 to the Director of Navy Contracts returning an order for semi-automatic guns as production was taken over by another company.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\3\ img019 | |
| Date | 4th September 1940 | |
| COPY. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/ML. 4.9.40. Director of Navy Contracts, Contract Department, Admiralty, Royal School, Lansdown Road, BATH. Dear Sirs, Q.F. 2 pdr. Mark XIV. Semi-automatic Guns. complete. Order C.P. 1B/60604/40.P.089/60. With reference to your order for 25 QF. 2-pounder Mk.{R. E. B. Meade-King} 14 semi-automatic guns, dated 25th. July, we are returning this order to you herewith as the production of these guns has now been taken over by the British United Shoe Machine Co., of Leicester. We understand that you will be sending them an order covering these guns, and others, in the immediate future. Yours faithfully, for ROLLS ROYCE LTD., | ||