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).
Official order for a standard Bentley thermometer with special tubing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\4\ img248 | |
| Date | 19th January 1937 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to G/JWH. 6003. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.8/JH.19.1.37. Will you please send an offical order to Messrs. Smith & Sons Ltd., for one standard Bentley thermometer to DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}158, but fitted with special small dia. armoured capillary tubing similar to the one previously supplied to us. This has been ordered by telephone by us from Messrs. Smith & Sons Ltd., Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/td. | ||