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 Mead McLean & Co. Ltd regarding a change in material from brass to steel for ventilator hinge pins.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 158\6\ scan0023 | |
| Date | 15th August 1938 | |
| 1247 Mead McLean & Co. Ltd TELEGRAMS EMEMANDKOY, WESTRAND, LONDON GRAND BUILDINGS TRAFALGAR SQUARE LONDON W·C·2 TELEPHONE WHITEHALL 3884 YOUR REF.................. OUR REF "PLH/MD." PATENT 'MM' DRAUGHTLESS VENTILATORS for MOTOR CARS Messrs. Rolls-Royce Limited, Experimental Dept., DERBY. 15th August 1938. Dear Sirs, We beg to acknowledge receipt of your favour of the 12th inst., Reference "Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}8/JH", and in reply beg to advise that we are now supplying steel pins on all our Ventilators, in place of the brass hinge pins previously used, and we are sending on to you four pins in the course of a post or two to replace the brass pins on the two sets of Ventilators already supplied. Thanking you for bringing the matter to our notice, and trusting the necessity for replacing these pins will not occasion you any inconvenience, We are, dear Sirs, Yours faithfully, FOR MEAD McLEAN & CO. LTD [Illegible Signature] Secretary file | ||