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 Burgess Products Company enquiring about the testing of a new experimental exhaust silencer.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 104\2\ scan0209 | |
| Date | 26th May 1936 | |
| TELEPHONE: 141 EARL SHILTON TELEGRAMS: BURDUCTO, BARWELL Partners: E.J.L. COTTON. BURGESS PRODUCTS COMPANY, LONDON OFFICE: THAMES HOUSE, MILLBANK S.W.1 Directors: E.J.L., P.E. & K.G. COTTON. TELEPHONE: VICTORIA 2961 TELEGRAMS: BURDUCTO, LONDON BURGESS PRODUCTS COMPANY ASSOCIATED COMPANIES: FREEPORT ILL. U.S.A. MADISON WIS. U.S.A. MOLINE ILL. U.S.A. NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA PRINCIPAL: E.J.L. COTTON ELECTRICAL & ACOUSTICAL ENGINEERS & MANUFACTURERS BARWELL LEICESTER EUROPEAN AGENCIES: BERLIN PARIS VIENNA BRUSSELS ROTTERDAM BUDAPEST PRAGUE STOCKHOLM Your Ref.: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}24/KW. Our Ref.: R/EJLC. 26th. May, 1936. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Derby. File Dear Sirs, Experimental Exhaust Silencer. Reverting to your letter of May 8th., we should be interested to know whether you have as yet been able to test this new type of exhaust silencer on one of your cars. If the test you kindly promised to undertake has now been completed, the writer would be very pleased to visit you at your convenience for the purpose of discussing this and other silencing matters. Awaiting with interest your reply, We are, Yours very truly, BURGESS PRODUCTS COMPANY, Principal. cc.LO. | ||