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 Park Ward & Co. detailing the correct method for preparing sheet steel wings for painting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\2\ scan0032 | |
| Date | 1st September 1934 | |
| 1369 Same letter sent to Hooper & Co. Acton. COPY for Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}5/IH. 1st September, 1934. Messrs. Park Ward & Co., Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, N.W. 10. Dear Sirs, re:- STEEL WINGS. ---------------- Mr. Punt, of Franco-Britannic Autos, Paris, has further investigated the treatment of the sheet steel used by Messrs. Binder et Cie, of Paris, and writes as follows:- "I find that their method is to clean the sheet steel with petrol as soon as they are ready to treat it with the paint, and they lay great stress on the fact that the sheet, having once been washed in petrol, must not be touched by the workman's hands before putting on the paint. Should the sheet have any sign of rust, they clean it off with pumice-stone. The sheet is allowed to dry off before painting. I told them that one of our London Coachbuilders (without mentioning a name) had not been successful in keeping the paint on during the hammering, and that they had cleaned the sheet with turpentine, but Binder's state that this contains a grease which interferes with the painting. I personally saw a painted piece of sheet steel being very - 1 - | ||