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 Rotol Airscrews requesting a recommendation for a supplier of babbitted lead-bronze steel-backed bearing shells.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\2\ scan0624 | |
| Date | 2nd August 1941 | |
| TELEPHONE: GLOUCESTER 4431 TELEGRAMS: ROTOL, GLOUCESTER. ROTOL AIRSCREWS LIMITED DIRECTORS: SIR G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} STANLEY WHITE, BT.{Capt. J. S. Burt - Engineer} A.F. SIDGREAVES, O.B.E. A.H.R. FEDDEN, M.B.E. E.W. HIVES, M.B.E. CHELTENHAM ROAD GLOUCESTER OUR REF. DRP.11/CA. YOUR REF. 2nd August, 1941. 1020 W. A.{Mr Adams} Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby. Dear Mr. Robotham, I wonder if you would be good enough to recommend a firm who would make babbitted lead-bronze steel-backed bearing shells for our Auxiliary Power Unit. We would machine the steel shells but we do not have the technique here for putting in the metal. I should be very grateful for any assistance you could give me in this matter. Yours sincerely, D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} R.{Sir Henry Royce} Pobjoy. | ||