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).
Promising preliminary tests of a new cylinder head and inquiring about patent status.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\1\ scan0043 | |
| Date | 4th December 1933 | |
| 1219 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} To H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Re New Cylinder Head/LEC.3673. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}3/E4.12.33 Copy to Her.Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}Rg.{Mr Rowledge} I am very pleased to see from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rml2/KT.1.12.33 that the preliminary tests with your proposed new cylinder head look so promising and if, as the memo. mentions, it will enable us to have smoother cars with the same performance, it is what we are badly needing. I was wondering what the position was in regard to patents. Perhaps you will let me know. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||