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).
The urgent production of an armour plate mock-up for an Oerlikon gun mounting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\3\ img090 | |
| Date | 20th August 1940 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} We understand that you now have the details for the armour plate to be fitted up on the Oerlikon mounting. Will you please make a mock-up of this as soon as possible as per the Minutes of our last Meeting, Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}8/ML.5.8.40. The matter is somewhat urgent as, after the mock-up has been approved, the Admiralty have to produce the necessary shield in armour plate, to be ready for your two guns for service trials. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Dictated, but signed in Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}'s absence. | ||