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 a supplier confirming a telephone conversation and requesting the manufacture of two pairs of Bentley top plates.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 119\4\ scan0140 | |
| Date | 11th November 1938 | |
| COPY. Experimental Dept. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.17/MH.{M. Huckerby} 11th. November 1938. Messrs. Hallam, Sleigh & Cheston Ltd., Widney Works, Bagot Street, BIRMINGHAM, 4. For the attention of Mr.Booth. Dear Sirs, Confirming our telephone conversation of this afternoon, we wish you to make up for us two pairs of Bentley top plates to EB.3849/50 complete with hinges to EB.4406, catch plates to EB.4368 and bonnet eyes to EB.4404, (drawings attached), as soon as possible. One pair should be fitted with two of your spring opening devices as shown on EB.4406, and the other with three spaced evenly. In particular we would like to receive one of these sets in less than one week, and would like Mr. Booth to telephone the writer to-morrow morning on this subject. As the drawings EB.3849/50 have been altered slightly, new prints are enclosed - will you please return the old prints to the writer. Yours faithfully, for ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||