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).
Request for red fibre joint washers to replace Klingerite ones on Amiot & Dewoitine header tanks.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 146\5\ scan0248 | |
| Date | 23th January 1940 | |
| To Rolls-Royce Ltd. Derby......... Sft.{Mr Swift} Copy to Dor{Mr Dorey}/ERP. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Levallois Sr.8/ET.23.I.40 AMIOT & DEWOITINE HEADER TANK FILLER CAP JOINT WASHERS ---------------------------------- Dor{Mr Dorey}/ERP informs me that arrangements have been made for the filler cap joint washer on all future standard Merlin pressure cooled header tanks to our drawing INS.D.38I22 to be changed from Klingerite to red Fibre. Would you be good enough to see we have sent out to us sufficient of these fibre washers to make the changeovers on the header tanks out here, i.e. Amiots 4 and Dewoitines 3. These could be sent out addressed to me by ordinary parcel post. Sr. | ||