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 Lodge Plugs Limited following up on a telephone request for two dozen X525 plugs for a new 30 HP engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 162\6\ img322 | |
| Date | 25th June 1936 | |
| Telephone, 276 RUGBY (2 lines) Established 1904. Telegrams, "LODGE, RUGBY" Lodge Plugs Limited, Rugby. Handwritten note: L6002b. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., D E R B Y. Your Ref. Our Ref. BH/EW Date 25 June 1936. All letters must be addressed to the Company, not to individuals For the attention of Mr. West. Handwritten initials: WST Dear Sirs, We wrote you on the 28th April last in reference to your telephone request for two dozen plugs similar to the X523, but with the barrel portion lengthened by 4 mm's, and with the thread length reduced to 14 mm's. These plugs we understood were required for your new 30 H.P. engine, and are known as X525. We do not appear to have received any official order from you for these two dozen plugs, and if you still require them we shall be very much obliged if you will be good enough to forward us your order for same, when we can despatch them immediately. Yours faithfully, LODGE PLUGS LIMITED. Bernard Hopps. DIRECTOR. Handwritten note: one dozen DIRECTORS: BERNARD HOPPS. ALEC. M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} LODGE. F.{Mr Friese} BRODIE LODGE. | ||