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 accumulator manufacturers Peto & Radford, regarding a request for examples of chafed Ebonite Sheets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\5\ Scan005 | |
| Date | 17th April 1925 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex. *2655 TELEPHONE VICTORIA 3667. 4 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE. TELEGRAMS CONCENTRATION, SOWEST, LONDON. Manufacturers of P & R Accumulators. Established 1889. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS LONDON. S.W.1. DIRECTORS: SIR ARCHIBALD O. {Mr Oldham} GOLD K.C. GRAHAM MENZIES G.H.N. MINCHIN WILLIAM PETO C.R.D. PRITCHETT T.W. PRITCHETT. YOUR REF OUR REF M {Mr Moon / Mr Moore} /A 174. April 17th 1925. E.Fowler Clark Esq, c/o Messrs.Rolls-Royce Limited, Nightingale Road. DERBY. Dear Fowler Clark, We are looking into the question of using the thicker Ebonite Sheets but I should be glad if you would send us two or three examples of the worst ones where they have chafed through. Yours sincerely, G R N Minchin | ||