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).
Return of 20 Rotax push-button switches for the first Merlin engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\2\ img236 | |
| Date | 19th September 1936 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} -6139 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.1/JH.19.9.36. Rotax Push Button Switches Type N.5.C.D. We have had supplied to us against our order, 20 Rotax switches type N.5.C.D. in connection with the production of the first 20 Merlin engines. We now learn that these are to be issued by the Air Ministry to the Aircraft Manufacture on Embodiment Loan. Will you please ask Messrs. Rotax if they will, in the circumstances, agree to take back these 20 switches. Ia/Wst. | ||