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).
Changeover to Helsby high tension wires and the instruction to scrap existing stocks of maconite cable.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168\1\ img273 | |
| Date | 17th September 1936 | |
| He/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} c. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} WST ' 66117. BY/Cgh.{W Clough}3/W.17.9.36 CHASSIS : HIGH TENSION WIRES. With reference to your memo dated the 15th.instant in connection with the above, at the time we changed over to Helsby cable there was not sufficient evidence available to justify the scrapping of the maconite which might be held in stock at Depots, but in view of the information you have given to us we have issued an instruction to the Order Office and Repair Department that Depots should be supplied with Helsby cables as quickly as possible, that their existing stocks of maconite should be scrapped. BY/Cgh.{W Clough} | ||