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).
Internal request to order mild steel sheets and a sparking plug from Burgess Products Ltd.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 104\2\ scan0255 | |
| Date | 14th November 1936 | |
| 523 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Whym. c. to G/Mt. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Whym.16/AP.14.11.36. Will you please send an official order to the Burgess Products Ltd., Barwell, Leicester, for the following:- 3 sheets of Mild Steel 8' X 3' X 16 SWG. with 14 3/32" holes/Sq.in. 1 - 6 m/m A.C. Sparking plug. The parts were brought to the Works by the writer on Friday 13.11.36. following a visit to the Burgess Products Co. Will G/Mt. please book in. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Whym. | ||