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).
Request to trial a new Thiokol covered H.T. ignition cable on two vehicles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168\1\ img206 | |
| Date | 4th June 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} 86117 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.17/KW.4.6.35. Thiokol Covered H.T. Ignition Cable. We wish to try out a new type of ignition cable developed in the U.S.A. which consists of ordinary rubber covered with an Ethylene Tetrasulphide known as "Thiokol". Will you please arrange to make up a set of wires in this material for 21-G-IV, and also a Bentley set of wires which we propose sending down to Kingsbury for fitting to Lp{Mr Lappin}'s car, 4-B-IV. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||