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 a silk merchant confirming a sample order for artificial silk sleeving.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168b\2\ img302 | |
| Date | 19th June 1936 | |
| ROWSON & SON LIMITED. SILK MERCHANTS. ROYAL DEPÔT MILLS. MACCLESFIELD. TELEPHONE— MACCLESFIELD Nº 2809. DIRECTORS: H.R. BRUNT. V.M. DAINTRY. N.C. HOOLEY. NCH/MJW TELEGRAMS — ROWSON, MACCLESFIELD. CODES A.B.C. 5th EDITION WESTERN UNION BENTLEY'S, OLIVERS. 19th June 1936. Messrs Rolls-Royce Ltd, Derby. Dear Sirs, We have your order No. A 2214 for a sample gross yards of Artificial Silk Sleeving blue in our quality No. 160 approx. 1 m/m inside diameter at 5/- per gross. We find we have in stock two small lots in blue of 20 yds and 24 yds which we have thought might be sufficient for you to carry out your experiments and we have sent along to you today under separate cover. For making time we shall require about 14 days for this particular quality and we hope we may be favoured with your any instructions which will have our best attention. With the 44 yds we are sending today, we shall consider your order A 2214 complete. Yours faithfully, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ROWSON & SON LIMITED, N.C. Hooley DIRECTOR | ||