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 H.A. Douglas MFG. Co. to Mr. H. Royce in response to an enquiry about snap terminals and swedging machines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168b\2\ img257 | |
| Date | 17th August 1932 | |
| THE HUMAN ELEMENT THAT DEFEATS ALL THEORY OF NUT AND SCREW TERMINALS SNAP TERMINALS DEFY HUMAN CARELESSNESS H.A. DOUGLAS MFG. CO. BRONSON, MICH. Handwritten: 1932 AUG 29 Handwritten: It/Lost Handwritten: X802 August 17, 1932. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Derby, England. Attention: Mr. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Royce, Buyer. Gentlemen: We have yours of August 3rd referring to our advertisement in the SAE Journal in regard to snap terminals, fixed focus sockets and machines for swedging on the terminals. We are sending you under separate cover samples of the terminals and blocks and can supply you with a machine for fastening these terminals to wires. Will you kindly let us know what particular type you are interested in, and if possible give us some idea of what your set-up would be, at which time we will gladly quote you prices on these parts. Thanking you for your inquiry, we are Yours very truly, H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} A.{Mr Adams} DOUGLAS MFG. CO. FJW*DK F.{Mr Friese} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Watts, Sales Engineer. SHOULD YOU EXPECT EMPLOYEES Working under speed you require, to tighten each terminal nut, to proper pressure to insure contact after corrosion takes place? | ||