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).
Request to dispatch failed 10% chromium valves and an analysis of successful silchrome steel to Mr. F.R. Banks of the Ethyl Export Corporation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 150\1\ scan0230 | |
| Date | 15th October 1936 | |
| To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell} X1282 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 26/KW.15.10.36. Will you please arrange to despatch two of the 10% chromium valves which failed on test to Mr. F.R. Banks, of the Ethyl Export Corporation, Thames House, Millbank, S.W.1. We have already sent him a copy of the blue rpint showing the distortion of the valves after running. Will you also send an analysis of the silchrome steel which we use which is successful. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||