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 C.C. Wakefield & Co. Ltd. regarding a crown wheel and pinion for an exhibition.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 145\2\ scan0169 | |
| Date | 31th August 1937 | |
| 1231 BY APPOINTMENT Makers of the Famous “PATENT CASTROL” Motor Oils. C.C. Wakefield & Co., Limited. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH CLASS LUBRICANTS. GOVERNING DIRECTOR, VISCOUNT WAKEFIELD OF HYTHE. MANAGING DIRECTOR, W.R.GRAHAM. DIRECTOR & SECRETARY, J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} BROWNE. PHONES: CITY 4411 (11 Lines.) RESEARCH DEPARTMENT. WSC{W. S. Cassel}/JWC/VB PLEASE ADDRESS YOUR REPLY TO: RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, HAYES, Middlesex. Phone: HAYES 246/8 Cheapside, London, E.C.2. 31st August, 1937. R.M. Grylls, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Mr. Grylls, We thank you for the crown wheel and pinion which we have received with your memo. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel}10/BA, No. WG{Mr Gill - Financial Director}/F 32237. We take it that these are the parts, to which you refer in your letter of the 25th instant, which you were sending to us for the Exhibition at the Science Museum in connection with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Mr. Evans is at present away on holiday, but we should be glad if you would kindly let us have a short description of your exhibit, of about one hundred words, to include in the catalogue which is now being prepared. Yours very truly, [Signature] | ||