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 Allen & Simmonds regarding the return of unsatisfactory pistons and providing a new set for testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 77\1\ scan0054 | |
| Date | 6th April 1921 | |
| X1105 CODE: "MARCONI INTERNATIONAL". TELEGRAMS: "PISTONS, READING." TELEPHONE N°1314. ALLEN & SIMMONDS (READING) LTD PISTON & PISTON RING SPECIALISTS, AERO ENGINEERS, ETC. THAMES SIDE ENGINEERING WORKS, READING, BERKS. PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMPANY NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. SPECIALITIES ALLEN PATENT FRICTIONLESS PISTONS, PISTON VALVES AND ROD PACKINGS. COVERED BY 30 BRITISH PATENTS AND 50 FOREIGN PATENTS. SPECIALITIES PISTONS, PISTON RINGS AND GUDGEON PINS FOR AERO AND OTHER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES. MACHINE GUN MOUNTINGS. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. 6th.April 1921 Please quote REF. EA/LL Dear Sirs, YOUR REF: HSL/LG2.4.21. In reply to your letter of the 2nd.inst. we shall be glad if you will return to us the pistons already supplied to you, as we are of the opinion that it will be unsatisfactory to run them without scraper rings. We will put a further set of pistons in hand, which we trust you will be good enough to test upon completion. Yours faithfully, FOR ALLEN & SIMMONDS /READING/ LTD., B.Tull, Secretary. [STAMP: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} APR 6 1921 RECEIVED] [STAMP: S. D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}] | ||