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).
Agreements with the Wolseley Company regarding direct communication, camshaft production, and engine design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 128\3\ scan0235 | |
| Date | 5th April 1918 | |
| Copy to Mr. Swift. " Mr. Southern. " Mr. Platford. " Mr. Tonge. " Mr. Hives. To BY from CJ. X1130 C O P Y. 5th April 1918. CJ17/EB418. Re Wolseley Company. With reference to your forthcoming call on the Wolseley Company. I have seen Mr. McCormack to-day and have discussed with him the 7 matters mentioned on the enclosed agenda. 1. It is agreed that the two companies should inter-communicate directly without reference to Sir Alfred Herbert's Department unless one Company cannot get from the other Company what it requires without the intervention of Sir Alfred Herbert's Department. Please convey this instruction to Mr. Whitehead, Mr. Delooze, and Mr. Wormald and ask them to convey it to all concerned in their respective departments. 2. The Wolseley Company have not to-day any machine which could grind the cams to the necessary profile. They agree, therefore, to make camshafts and send them to us for the final grinding provided that we can undertake to supply them regularly with 40 ground camshafts per week. Under the revised programme by which the Wolseley Company will be required to make a large number of another engine before they commenced the R.R. engine, the camshafts will be arriving from the Wolseley Company at Derby in September. 3. Vickers and Wolseley are willing to declare that they do not intend to and will not make and offer for sale an aero engine which is palpably a copy of the R.R. engine and this undertaking shall be good for all times. B.R. 235A (500 L) (S.D. 408. 26-4-17.) Bm. 2/156/13. | ||