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).
Requesting a change of material for the Peregrine petrol pump from aluminium alloy to type metal.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27a\2\ Scan083 | |
| Date | 8th August 1932 | |
| By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x2677 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}14/ADL 8. 8. 32. PEREGRINE PETROL PUMP When this petrol pump is finally issued, will you please instruct 2 or 3 sets off in type metal as this is the material of which the A.C. pump is made. It is very easy to die-cast and it appears to be less liable to corrosion than the aluminium alloy we have been using. HL. has an analysis of the A.C. petrol pump casting and can therefore reproduce the material. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||