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).
Requesting the purchase of two cup leathers for an experimental air cylinder.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\2\ scan0325 | |
| Date | 4th January 1939 | |
| 328 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to G/JWH. c. to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}14/JH.4.1.39. Will you please obtain for us two cup leathers similar to the ones in a bicycle pump but for use in a 3 1/4" dia. cylinder. These leathers are required for a purely experimental air cylinder and should only be purchased if they can be obtained from stock. They are urgently required and should be forwarded to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel} O/N.52429. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} | ||