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 regarding the shipment of sample water jackets, detailing alterations, price, and materials.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 38\6\ Scan050 | |
| Date | 10th December 1918 | |
| COPY. ROLLS ROYCE LIMITED, 220, UNION BUILDING, EUCLID AVENUE, CLEVELAND, OHIO. U.S.A. December 10th. 1918. OY1-F101218. BY from OY. Copies R.{Sir Henry Royce} and E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} RE SAMPLE WATER JACKETS. 1. We are to-day shipping you, through Captain Critchley's department, four sample water jackets, which are of the latest type used by us at Stearns. 2. Those shipped you before were in the transition stage of an alteration, designed to slightly increase the thickness of water round the valve bends, since the earlier jacket had been slightly constricted here. The result was that in the transition stage, these jackets did not come to-gether at the longitudinal seams without a certain amount of fitting work, which was carried out by Stearns. The jackets as sent will go together on the cylinder with a minimum of fittings. 3. The price we are paying for the jackets is 25¢ for each half-jacket, and they are pressed in pairs, but come to us in individual half-jackets. They are made from "Armco" iron, which is simply verynlow carbon iron sheet, containing | ||