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 to a supplier regarding the despatch of steel parts and an urgent request for rubber samples and moulds.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\1\ scan0172 | |
| Date | 16th August 1935 | |
| X322 Exptl. Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.21/KW. 16th August, 1935. The British Tyre & Rubber Co.Ltd., Oxford Works, Derby Road, Burton-on-Trent. For the attention of Mr. Williams. Dear Sirs, We are despatching to-night to your Leyland Works, 3 sets of steel parts F.87576/7, and are requiring 3 rubbers F.87575, durometer 65-70, very urgently. We trust you will do your utmost for these sample rubbers to reach us at the earliest possible date. We trust also that the moulds are continuing satisfactorily for the buffers C.83277/8. Thanking you for the trouble taken. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||