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 a spring manufacturer requesting measurement information for an F.B. Type Spring order.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\1\ scan0050 | |
| Date | 27th January 1933 | |
| 83854. JONAS WOODHEAD & SONS LTD. TRADE MARK REGISTERED. MANUFACTURERS OF LAMINATED SPRINGS FOR ROLLING STOCK ROAD OR RAIL REG'D OFFICE AND WORKS: KIRKSTALL ROAD, LEEDS. LONDON OFFICE: 17, VICTORIA STREET, S.W.1. TELEPHONES: LEEDS 20814 AND 20815. (PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE) LONDON VICTORIA 5727 and 5728. ON ADMIRALTY WAR OFFICE COLONIAL AND ALL LISTS [STAMP: ROLLS-ROYCE LTD LEEDS. 4. 28 JAN 1933] [STAMP: RECEIVED] TELEGRAMS: "FORGE, LEEDS." CODE: 5TH. EDITION A.B.C. ESTABLISHED 1850. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. DATE 27th Jan. 1933. YOUR REF. ______ OUR REF. JW/PMB. Dear Sirs, We are duly in receipt of your favours of the 23rd and 26th inst., and thank you for your instructions to put in hand Springs of various Types. With regard to the F.B. Type Springs, we are still awaiting the information as to the measurement between the static loaded position of the Rear Spring and the bumping point. We trust you will be able to let us have the information within the course of a post or two. Yours faithfully, JONAS WOODHEAD & SONS. LTD., [Signature: JW] [Handwritten Note Bottom Left:] H.I/Rem Remindg copy RS{Sir Henry Royce's Secretary} 28/1/33 [Watermark: CONQUEROR] | ||