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).
Correspondence regarding faulty 'Cut-outs' from Bleriot Ltd. and Phares Blériot.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 48\3\ Scan226 | |
| Date | 30th March 1921 | |
| Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} from Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} c.to Ms. c.to Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c.to De. (RECEIVED STAMP 1921) X.4215. Wd {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} 2/NJ30.3.21. X.4215 - Bleriot PHI. Cut-outs. Yours EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 5/T9.3.21. We have a letter from Bleriot Ltd., 4, Catesby Street, Walworth, S.E.17, dated 24th inst. as follows:- "We thank you for yours of the 10th inst. and very much regret that a number of the Cut-outs supplied to you have not proved entirely satisfactory. "We are re-adjusting the ones returned by you and correcting the faults pointed out. We hope that when you receive them back again they will all conform to your specification andgive you every satisfaction. "We also have pleasure in advising you that four new Cut-outs, being the balance of your order, are being despatched to you today." I am giving instructions to stores that the four new Cut-outs must be handed to EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} on arrival here. We have also received a letter from Phares Blériot, 14-16, Rue Duret, (XVIe), Paris, dated 25th inst. which is being sent to EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} from which he will note that it is their intention to prepare six more Cut-outs to our actual specification and they ask that we will send to them direct a copy of our specification to avoid waste of time. Reference is also made to a sheet (Notes on Automatic Switches Compensated Type) which is attached to the letter. This is evidently a bad translation from the French, but I hope that same will be clear to EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} If EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} desires me to send a copy of his specification to Phares Blériot, will he please let me have same and at the same time return to me the letter from Phares Bleriot. Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} Ltr.att. | ||