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 Fleming's Hotel regarding proposals for direct injection systems.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\3\ scan0110 | |
| Date | 11th January 1940 | |
| Telegrams: Fleminotel, Audley, London. Telephone: Grosvenor 2964 (6 lines). 1263 Fleming's Hotel, Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, W.1. 11/FY/40 Dear Mr Rowbotham, I should like to refer to my interviews with you last week, when you were kind enough to devote so much time to examining some of the new projects of the S.U.Co. I should like to refer particularly to our proposals for direct injection, and perhaps I should say at this juncture that I am writing at Mr. Skinner's suggestion. Kent and myself have been working on this proposition for about eighteen months now, and we feel that the time has now arrived, and that our present design is sufficiently advanced, to justify our starting on some serious experimental work. I am sorry to say, however, that | ||