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 test pilot and aeronautical consultant regarding an enquiry for Detonindex valves and suggesting the testing of B.G. Plugs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 58\2\ Scan210 | |
| Date | 17th July 1935 | |
| R.H.STOCKEN M.I.Ae.E., M.G.A.P.A.N., R.A.F.O. (TEST PILOT & AERONAUTICAL CONSULTANT) Engine & Aircraft Flying Tests. Ab Initio & Advanced Training given on Aeroplanes & Seaplanes. Dorland House 18-20 Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Telephone: Whitehall 8845. Late C.F.S. Instructor & Member of High Speed Flight. Organizer of Air Meetings. Advice given on purchase of Aircraft & Aero Inventions. REG/ CC. 17th July, 1935. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, We have been advised by La{L. A. Archer} Bougie B.G., of your enquiry for Detonindex valves and Neon Tube Recorder, for which they have quoted you. We shall be very pleased to know if there is any further information that you require. For your information we are now supplying the B.G. Plug and Screening to Messrs. Armstrong Siddeley and Bristol Aeroplane Co. who are using these with very satisfactory results. We take this opportunity of suggesting that you test these Plugs on your engines, for which purpose we shall be very pleased to quote you for a sample set. We trust that the above will be of interest to you. Yours faithfully, [Signature] per pro Captain R.H.Stocken. Handwritten notes: Top right corner: 86000. Above recipient address: WST Left margin: HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/WSW | ||