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 the Royal Arsenal requesting to see the design or drawings for an attachment for a 40mm A.A. mounting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\3\ img104 | |
| Date | 27th September 1939 | |
| Form D.D.1. [Postage must be Prepaid on all Letters, etc., sent to this Office.] Telephone: WOOLWICH 2080. Ext: Please quote in your reply D 346/12 Your Ref. ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, S.E. 18. 27th September 1939. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., DERBY. Gentlemen, Mounting A.A. 40 m/m.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} (Bofors) I have been asked to design a form of attachment to the above mounting so that corrections can be applied to the rear sights of the Forward area Sight. I understand that one of your staff was recently at Stiffkey at Practice Camp, and discussed this matter with Major Clarke, the Instructor in Gunnery there. As a result I believe you undertook to make some such attachment and that it is now nearly complete. If this is so, I should be most grateful if you could provide me with an opportunity of seeing either the attachment and/or the drawings. Yours faithfully, [Signature] PSG/DJ for CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF DESIGN. | ||