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 arranging a meeting and enclosing a photomicrograph of an iron specimen for a braking surface.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 142\4\ scan0161 | |
| Date | 3rd February 1936 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}8/KW. X1203 FOR ROLL 3rd February 1936. J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Whitfield, Esq., 29, Hertford Street, Coventry. Dear Mr. Whitfield, I shall be pleased to see you on Wednesday at 2.30 p.m., to discuss any matter you wish. I enclose the photomicrograph of the iron which is thought to be so suitable for a braking surface. The magnification is 100 diameters and the specimen was picric acid etched. If as the results of any experiments you may carry out you are able to produce iron having this micro-structure regularly, we should be interested to hear from you. I am, Yours truly, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||