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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 to Captain Green confirming responsibility for 40 mm Mk. XIV Gun prototype mountings and requesting a unit for experimental work.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 176\3\  img060
Date  6th October 1940
  
COPY.

Am.S/ML.

6.10.40.

Captain Green,
Empire Hotel,
BATH.

Dear Captain Green,

Further to our telephone conversation, we should like you to confirm that Rolls Royce are responsible for the prototype mountings for the 40 mm. Mk.{R. E. B. Meade-King} XIV. Gun.

At the moment, there seems to be a tendency for the L.M. & S. Railways to modify the mounting to suit their manufacturing convenience, without submitting such modifications to us, and if this continues, we shall eventually get in a mess.

Will you please allot us one pedestal type mounting complete, to retain at Derby for experimental work.

Yours sincerely,
  
  


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