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 Rover Company Ltd. regarding their testing and results with Chromium Plating.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\3\ scan0106 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1936 | |
| X1091 TELEPHONE 8081 (7 LINES). TELEGRAMS: "ROVER,"COVENTRY." SBW:ME. THE ROVER COMPANY LTD. COVENTRY, ENG. July 2nd 1936 W.A.Robotham Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd, Derby. Dear Robotham, Many thanks for the particulars of your test on Chromium Plating. To start with we got inconsistent results, but subsequently found out how to plate and finish our bores in such a way that we are now entirely free from seizure. I do not think that seizure is basically due to the chromium becoming detached, although of course this happens as soon as the seizing takes place. Yours sincerely, S B Wilks | ||