Letter to The Gabriel Manufacturing Co. ordering a sample of tinned phosphor bronze braiding wire and small ferrules for an engine trial.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168b\2\ img297 | |
| Date | 9th April 1936 | |
| 86148 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.5/JH.9.4.36. 9th April, 1936. The Gabriel Manufacturing Co., Columbia Avenue, Edgware, Middlesex. Dear Sirs, In reply to your letter of the 6th inst. reference HCW/SR we are sending you under seperate cover an order for a sample length of 24 feet of the braided Titeflex which you sent us. We require the 36 S.W.G. braiding wire to be of tinned Phospor bronze, and also a supply of 50 of the small ferrules, a sample of which was soldered to the piece you submitted. This will enable us to fit up an engine for trial on the test bench. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||
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).