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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).
Continued letter regarding the production of Bakelite insulating parts and the difficulty in finding a manufacturer in England.

Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\F\May1921\  Scan8
Date  1st May 1921
  
To R.R. of America Inc.
from R.{Sir Henry Royce}
(2)
RE BAKELITE.
R8/G4/5/21. Contd.

Companies. In this case we should be making much more extensive use of the moulds, and therefore effecting a real economy.
In conclusion, you may be sure that we should not have troubled you or ourselves in this matter if we had been able to find anyone in England to make these insulating pieces for us, but up to the moment we have not found anyone doing this work for the trade, but we have lately found a few electrical firms who do this work for their own productions.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}
  
  


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