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 Le Carbone confirming the dispatch of carbon brush samples.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 50\5\ Scan150 | |
| Date | 18th January 1923 | |
| X. 4333. CONTRACTORS to the ADMIRALTY, POST OFFICE, WAR OFFICE, &c. LE CARBONE CARBONS FOR- MICROPHONES, WELDING, SMELTING, ELECTRO- DEPOSITION, RESISTANCES, &c. &c., ELECTRO- GRAPHITIC CARBON. (GICHARD'S & STREETS PATENTS) CARBI SACK BATTERIES. LACOMBE CELLS. BRUSHES - CARBON, METAL, COMBINED METAL AND CARBON FOR ALL TYPES OF - DYNAMOS -&- MOTORS. CARBON PACKING RINGS. FOR TURBINE ENGINES. MAGNETO CARBONS. A.B.C. CODE 4th & 5th EDITION. TELEPHONE - CLERKENWELL 1826. TELEGRAMS - "LACOMBE, AVE, LONDON" COVENTRY HOUSE, SOUTH PLACE, LONDON, E.C.2. ENGLAND. SUPPLIERS TO THE PRINCIPAL RAILWAYS, TRAMWAYS, CORPORATIONS & ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER UNDERTAKINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 18th January, 1923. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. Dear Sirs, For the Attention of Mr. Fowler Clark. Our Ref. 8078/F.8716. In accordance with the request contained in your favour of the 22nd ult., we have despatched to you to-day per Registered Letter Post 4 brushes each in "EG60" and "EG30" grades, as per samples invoice herewith. We trust you will have an early opportunity of placing these into service and we shall be happy to hear from you in due course of the results obtained. In thanking you in anticipation of the favour of an early report, we are, Yours faithfully, For Le Carbone. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} T/B Enc. Invoice. RECEIVED JAN 19 1923 | ||