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 from Allen & Simmonds (Reading) Ltd regarding the machining and dispatch of custom piston rings and castings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 77\1\ scan0046 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1921 | |
| X. 1105 CODE: "MARCONI INTERNATIONAL" TELEGRAMS: "PISTONS, READING." TELEPHONE N°1314. ALLEN & SIMMONDS (READING) LTD PISTON & PISTON RING SPECIALISTS, AERO ENGINEERS, ETC. THAMES SIDE ENGINEERING WORKS, READING, BERKS. SPECIALITIES ALLEN PATENT FRICTIONLESS PISTONS, PISTON VALVES AND ROD PACKINGS. COVERED BY 30 BRITISH PATENTS AND 50 FOREIGN PATENTS. SPECIALITIES PISTONS, PISTON RINGS AND GUDGEON PINS FOR AERO AND OTHER INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES. MACHINE GUN MOUNTINGS. PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMPANY NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, Derby. 3rd. March, 1921. Please quote Ref. FA/DB{Donald Bastow - Suspensions} Dear Sirs, YOUR REF- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LG. We are in receipt of your letter of the 2nd. instant. You will remember in our letter of the 15th of December last we informed you that owing to the special design it was impracticable to fit our patent rings to your pistons, and that we were putting in hand a set of castings to suit our rings. These have now been machined, and the rings are being fitted. We hope to despatch same on Wednesday or Thursday of next week. Yours faithfully, For ALLEN & SIMMONDS /Reading/ LTD. B. Jull Secretary [STAMP: RECEIVED MAR 4 1921] | ||