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).
Phone message transcript regarding the status of Pratt & Whitney machines for forty-millimetre gun barrel manufacturing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\4\ img059 | |
| Date | 18th October 1940 | |
| GUN Taken over the phone 18.10.40. 1.45 p.m. ET. OLLEY 198, Detroit. HARDY REFERENCE PRATT WHITNEY MACHINES FOR FORTY MILLIMETRE BARREL OURCAB 159 MACHINES ALMOST FINISHED STOP TO COMPLETE WORKS HOLDERS MAKERS REQUIRE EXTERNAL DIAMETERS BOTH ENDS AT TIME BARREL IS READY FOR DRILLING BORING REAMING AND RIFLING OPERATIONS RESPECTIVELY STOP PLEASE CABLE OLLEY 198. | ||