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 Thos. Firth & Sons Limited concerning the dispatch of experimental springs and the repair of broken top leaves.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 52\2\ Scan057 | |
| Date | 8th September 1922 | |
| Mr Hives X4429 COPY OF LETTER FROM:- THOS. FIRTH & SONS LIMITED. NORFOLK WORKS SHEFFIELD. X4429 8.9.22 Please refer to SPRING DEPT. MMB/WEW Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. Dear Sirs, We shall be sending to you by passenger train on Monday next, 11th Sept. the 2 - 700 lbs. Experimental Springs to your order No. 10654, dated 16th August. These 2 springs have come out well under our load test, only being a matter of 5 or 6 lbs. light, and we shall be glad to hear the result of your Bumping Test. We have received the 8 springs with the broken top leaves which you forwarded to us on Wednesday last, 6th Sept. and we are endeavouring to return these, fitted with new silico manganese top leaves, together with the others on Monday, but we may not be able to despatch them until Tuesday. Yours faithfully, THOS. FIRTH & SONS LIMITED. (Sgd) M. {Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Burnett. Director. [STAMP: RECEIVED 15 SEP 1922] [Handwritten Note] The stores were instructed to send these springs to Exh Dept as per our note of 13/9/22 Ld/Sm 15/9/22 | ||