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 to Commander Oswald of The Admiralty regarding the difficulty of obtaining barrel steel forgings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 176\3\ img219 | |
| Date | 8th August 1940 | |
| Dun.6/PM. 8.8.40. Commander Oswald, R.N. The Admiralty, Whitehall. LONDON. Dear Commander Oswald, With reference to our previous discussion on the difficulty of getting barrel steel. We attach herewith a copy of a letter which we wrote to the English Steel Corporation and the original of their reply, from which you will see that if you wish to get 500 forgings released you will have to take some special action. Yours sincerely, | ||