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).
Internal memorandum requesting an order for rubber and cork rings for shock damper glands.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\4\ Scan326 | |
| Date | 19th December 1932 | |
| 83035. To Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/MS. From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} Will you please order the following parts for shock dampers glands to the attached sketches. - (1) 24 Oil resisting rubber rings to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}797. These should be supplied in equal quantities of two different grades of rubber similar to DM{D. Munro}/OY and D/OY., and they must be suitable for use with Mineral oil. (2) 24 Cork Rings to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}796. It is important that both these items should be supplied at the very earliest possible date. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/I.A.Leslie. | ||