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 Park Ward Ltd. concerning a lorry with an inadequate wooden truss for transporting Merlin engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\3\ scan0097 | |
| Date | 11th June 1940 | |
| 1021 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}13/ML. 11.6.40. C.W.Ward,Esq., Messrs Park Ward Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden. N.W.10. Dear Ward, re: LORRY. The lorry has arrived in Derby. We find that you have made the member of the Warren Truss in wood. This, of course, will not be adequate for carrying Merlin engines, which weigh 1,600 pounds. In Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}'s letter of the 3rd. May and the 28th. March, angle iron was specified for this job. We shall therefore have to rectify the point here. Yours sincerely, | ||