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).
Copy of a letter from The Morgan Crucible Company Ltd. regarding sending sample bearings for testing.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 62\1\ scan0022 | |
Date | 4th February 1932 | |
COPY OF LETTER. BATTERSEA WORKS, CHURCH ROAD, LONDON. S.W.11. 4th February 1932. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd. DERBY. ------ Dear Sirs, Your Enquiry ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/MS29/P - see ours 27-1-32. With reference to your letter ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/MS3/P. of 1st. inst. we are sending you herewith half-a-dozen sample Bearings in two sizes, which you are quite at liberty to test to destruction, and we should like to add that both for manufacturing reasons and efficiency in service we prefer to adhere as closely as possible to a wall thickness one thirteenth. of the length of the bush. Yours faithfully, THE MORGAN CRUCIBLE COMPANY LIMITED. | ||