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 the Royal Ordnance Factory regarding a contract for barrel forgings and their issue schedule.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 176\3\ img192 | |
| Date | 8th August 1940 | |
| Telephone: NOTTINGHAM 85274. Telegraphic Address: Gns, NOTTINGHAM. Please quote in your reply ...................... Your Ref. .......................... 2 e R.O.F. (N) Form 14. [Postage must be Prepaid on all Letters, etc., sent to this Office.] ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY, KINGS MEADOWS, NOTTINGHAM. 8th August, 1940. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Limited, DERBY. Dear Sirs, I am directed to acknowledge receipt of your letter RM.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}10/JMS. dated the 25th ultimo, and have to inform you that authority has been received from the D.O.F. to carry on with this contract. Should the barrel forgings be delivered as stated, by the 12th August, we will make our first issues at the end of August at the rate of four per week, until the sixty barrels are completed - making a total of sixty two of these barrels to Drawing No. Q.1270. 17/12. Yours faithfully, Y.J.Healy for Superintendent. AJV/DMS. | ||