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 a supplier concerning a wartime development programme and an order for 8-cylinder distributors.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168\3\ img239 | |
| Date | 21th February 1940 | |
| Misc Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}5/ML 21st. Feb: 1940. B.Rushton,Esq., Messrs Delco-Remy & Hyatt.Ltd., 111, Grosvenor Road, London.S.W.1. Dear Mr. Rushton, We are carrying out a fairly comprehensive development programme during the war on Chassis work. Amongst other things, Mr. Childe will be ordering from you a number of 8-cylinder distributors. I should be much indebted to you if you could give Mr. Childe every possible assistance in the matter of developing a satisfactory distributor. I appreciate that you have had a somewhat unfortunate experience on the 6-cylinder distributor in production but results in service have removed a number of the inhibitions of our people regarding your product and I feel that after the war we should be able to do business with you. Yours sincerely, | ||