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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 the Anglo-American Oil Company regarding an enquiry for non-inflammable high octane aviation fuel.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 27a\4\  Scan123
Date  23th May 1933
  
FORM No 220.
81282
Anglo-American Oil Company Limited
36, Queen Anne's Gate,
Westminster.
London, S.W.1
23rd May, 1933.
TELEPHONE:
VICTORIA 6325 (20 LINES)
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:
ADOPTION - PARL - LONDON.
PLEASE QUOTE
Ref DSP/CSV
SUBJECT.
Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd.,
DERBY.
Dear Sirs,
For the attention of Mr. A.{Mr Adams} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Rowledge.
We have been informed by our Associates in America that you have made an enquiry concerning non-inflammable Aviation Fuel of high Octane Number.
We do not hold stocks of this new material in this Country, but expect to obtain some experimentally. If you will give us a note of your requirements for test purposes we shall be pleased to arrange for supplies to be sent over immediately.
Yours faithfully,
ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL COMPANY, Ltd.
Manager,
Technical Department.
Handwritten notes:
Octane value
Say 100 galls
? Price
VICTOR
  
  


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