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).
Departmental memo about sending 'EOLE' Co. sparking plugs to Derby for testing on aviation engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\3\ Scan009 | |
| Date | 7th May 1919 | |
| X1812-a.{Mr Adams} AUTOMOBILES ROLLS-ROYCE (FRANCE) LIMITED 83, BOULEVARD GOUVION-SAINT-CYR PARIS TELEGRAMS: ROLLSROYCE-PARIS SHOWROOM, 102 Avenue des Champs-Elysees Teleph. : Wag. 87-04 OFFICES; GARAGE : / 83, Boul. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr STORES and REPAIRS: / Teleph. Wag. 11-54 10-81 DEPARTMENTAL MEMO This column is for Name of Person addressed. [Handwritten] Works for the attention of Experimental Dept. DATE WP7/SB{Mr Bull/Mr Bannister} 7/5/19 Re sparking plugs from "EOLE" C° We are to-day sending by driver COX, to London, 30 sparking plugs, gratuitously supplied to us by the "EOLE" C°, 17 ter, rue Voltaire, Levallois-Perret, with a request that we should try them on our aviation engines at Derby. Will you kindly try these and let us have a report, copy of which we may forward to the makers. We do not think it is necessary to return the plugs to us, so long as we get a detailed report [handwritten insertion: of results] and your observations. WP. [initials] [Stamp] S.N.N. RECEIVED 10 MAY 1919 This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||