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 the Bristol Aeroplane Company regarding guns in turrets and drawing office containers.
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| Date | 16th October 1940 | |
| ALL COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY AND NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. LONDON OFFICE 6, ARLINGTON STREET, ST.JAMES'S, S.W.1. TELEPHONE:- REGENT 0957-8. TELEGRAMS: BRISTAIRCO, PICCY, LONDON. TELEPHONE:- BRISTOL 45051. TELEGRAMS:- AVIATION, BRISTOL CODES:- WESTERN UNION, BENTLEYS & A.B.C. TELEX No BSBS. 46440. THE BRISTOL AEROPLANE COMPANY LTD SIR G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} STANLEY WHITE, BT{Capt. J. S. Burt - Engineer} (MANAGING DIRECTOR.) FILTON HOUSE, BRISTOL, ENG. Your Ref. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/ML. Our Ref. Tech/D/F/40/167. 16th October, 1940. W. A.{Mr Adams} Robotham Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby. Dear Robotham, I am collecting some information to send you in connection with guns in general and their installation in turrets, and, in the meantime, I will reply to your second note asking for information about the containers we use in our Drawing Office. These are made by the Chatwood Safe Company of Shrewsbury, and cost about £7.10s. each. We use them at the side of the drawing boards so that draughtsmen can put in the drawings on which they are working before they go down to the shelters. Thanks for your concern about our raid; we were certainly lucky, at least some of us, as we were not in the shelters that were hit. Yours sincerely, L G Frise | ||