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).
Specifications for cable wrapping, packing, armouring, and insulation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168b\2\ img025 | |
| Date | 13th December 1919 | |
| Contd. -4- Ck{Mr Clark}1/T13.12.19. will then be wrapped over with coloured tape in the same way as we originally specified. Cotton packing will then be used to attain the circular form, after which the cable will be taped and ferflex armoured. We agreed that the braiding which helps considerably in putting up the diameters might be omitted. We have arranged to leave it to them to fix up this insulation and protection in the way they think best, and they are decidedly of the opinion that they will be able to make a total reduction in the size of each cable sufficient to bring it down to the size of the corresponding Lucas cable previously used. Ck.{Mr Clark} | ||