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 a spark plug supplier requesting feedback on experimental plugs for a new engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 79\1\ scan0148 | |
| Date | 28th October 1918 | |
| X601 The Lodge Sparking Plug Company Limited. Rugby. Telegrams: "Lodge Rugby" Telephone: Rugby 235. UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, D E R B Y. YOUR REF. OUR REF. AML/EW. Date 28th October 1918. RECEIVED For the Attention of Mr. Hives. Dear Sirs, We should be very glad now if you could let us know how the 6 special KR4A. Plugs that we supplied to you are doing on your new engine, and we should also be glad of any further information you could give us about other experimental plugs which you have for testing. Yours faithfully, THE LODGE SPARKING PLUG CO. LTD. DIRECTOR. [Seals on left margin:] THE SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS & TRADERS THE CYCLE AND MOTOR CYCLE FOUNDED 1893 MEMBERS OF INCORPORATED 1910 MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS UNION THE MOTOR TRADE ASSOCIATION THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTORS S.B.A.C ENGINEERING EMPLOYERS FEDERATION 1896 | ||