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 requesting information on the supply and demand for glycerine anti-freeze and lubricating oil.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 151\3\ scan0276 | |
| Date | 18th March 1940 | |
| 1285 Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 6/MH. {M. Huckerby} 18th. March, 1940. A.Limb, Esq., Messrs. C.C.Wakefield & Co. Ltd., Wakefield House, 30/32, Cheapside, LONDON, E.C.2. Dear Limb, I understand that you supply the majority of the Glycerine used as anti-freeze in passenger cars. Can you give me any indication how the demand for this has grown during the past few years ? If you cannot separate the glycerine which you supply for this purpose from the glycerine supplied for commercial use, possibly you could tell me who to contact. Can you give me any information as to the amount of upper cylinder lubricating oil that was used at the out-break of War? Yours sincerely, | ||