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).
Meeting with Walton Yacht Works regarding the supply of 6 & 8 cylinder marine engines for their express cruisers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 133\3\ scan0118 | |
| Date | 13th February 1940 | |
| To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 1128 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AA.{D. Abbot-Anderson}10/B.13.2.40. WALTON YACHT WORKS LTD. On the afternoon of Saturday, the 10th inst., I called and saw Mr. A.{Mr Adams} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Hagg, Managing Director of the above firm. Incidentally, he is the designer of the D.H. Comet and the D.H.Moth aeroplanes. He gave me blue prints of two of their range of express cruisers. As he wants the prints back, I am having them copied and will let you have them in the course of two or three days. Mr. Hagg is extremely interested in our 8 & 6 cylinder marine engines. He says that at the moment there is a very definite market for engines of the 8 cylinder size in Admiralty boats. The Walton Yacht Works have a 45 ft. hull ready for engines now. No British engines are available, but Mr. Hagg is anxious to put the boat into commission, on trial, and then hand it over to the Admiralty for further trials. He would like our engines installed, and points out that if the Admiralty accepted hull and engines, we would have put over our engines and be sure of large orders for many types of Admiralty craft. He also spoke at some length about the plans for the future of the Walton Yacht Works. They have a range of fast cruisers up to 45 ft. They were, until war broke out, producing plans for a 55 or 57 ft. boat for use of Customs, Harbour Officials, etc., and of course pleasure, abroad. They were tooling and jigging for such a hull, the idea being to despatch all necessary tools, jigs, etc; local timber could be used for the hull, engines to be standardised. He would like to standardise our engines instead of American. Mr. Hagg has gone into the world market and is convinced that it is worth going for. Actually some American designers have adopted this method of production, but none of them have gone for such a large hull as the Walton people suggest. American producers have met with a considerable amount of success. There is only one man in the south of England who specialises in getting American plans, jigs and tools to this country for his clients and building American hulls for them, which indicates that there must be something made out of this method of producing boats. Mr. Hagg is very anxious for us to produce a drawing showing the outline of our engines. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AA.{D. Abbot-Anderson} | ||