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 gasket manufacturer offering a gasket solution for jointing experimental engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\2\ Scan222 | |
| Date | 6th June 1934 | |
| ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY AND NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. TELEPHONE: CHISWICK 5566 (4 Lines) CONTRACTORS TO THE ADMIRALTY WAR OFFICE & AIR MINISTRY. TELEGRAMS: "JOINPAJUS, PHONE, LONDON". CABLES: JOINPAJUS, LONDON. CODE: BENTLEYS. J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} PAYEN LTD ESTABLISHED 1907. GASKET MANUFACTURERS. CHURCH WHARF, CHISWICK, LONDON, W.4. YOUR REFERENCE OUR REFERENCE REF/6/9. X1775 Rolls Royce Ltd. DERBY. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 6th June, 1934. Dear Sirs, We thank you for the courtesy extended to our Representative during his recent visit during which you discussed the problem of maintaining a joint on your experimental engines. On a number of occasions we have overcome troubles by making up gaskets with thick copper faces and utilising thin sheets of asbestos, and we have no hesitation in recommending that such gaskets would be equally suitable for your purpose as they have a reasonable amount of resiliency, and at the same time are practically free from mechanical breakdown on account of their providing a means of conducting away the heat from the cylinder openings to the water ways. If you will indicate what are your requirements, we shall be only too pleased to make up some experimental gaskets for you. Yours faithfully, For J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Payen Ltd. [Illegible Signature] Handwritten notes: H=L/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||