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 to Hepworth & Grandage Ltd. requesting the supply of piston rings based on attached drawings for a test car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\3\ scan0280 | |
| Date | 29th November 1937 | |
| x 1256 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews}10/MH.{M. Huckerby} 29th. November 1937. Messrs. Hepworth & Grandage Ltd., St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} John's Works, Bradford, YORKS. For the attention of Mr. N.C.Brearley. Dear Sirs, Will you please supply as early as possible rings to the attached drawings Em.1536 and Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}471. We should like 50 of each type of ring in your ordinary cast material and 50 of each in high phosphorous-molybdenum iron marked similarly to the previous rings you have supplied us with. We shall have a car ready for test at the end of this week and should like to get these rings on with as little delay as possible, could you let us know the earliest date you can supply these rings for certain. We are instructing our order office to forward an official order for this job. Yours faithfully, for ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||