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).
Confirming a telephone conversation regarding a suspended order for an 8-cylinder crankshaft forging from English Steel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\2\ scan0398 | |
| Date | 21th February 1944 | |
| 1044 1116 To :- Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} (Clan Foundry). EM/Les.6/JB. 21.2.44. 8-CYLINDER CRANKSHAFT FORGING EB.4575.F. Confirming this afternoon's telephone conversation re the 8-cylinder crankshaft forging :- (1) The order on English Steel placed by us on the 26th. July was suspended on the 5th. of the next month. (2) No work has commenced on the dies. (3) English Steel estimate that six months would be required for the production of the dies, although this promise can probably be improved. (4) The price for the dies in 1939 was £850. 0s. 0d., but English Steel would expect this to be approximately doubled. English Steel are quite prepared to go ahead with the dies, but state that their present drawings have been mislaid. Could you please arrange for three prints of the 4-cylinder and 8-cylinder crankshafts to be sent to me so that these can be discussed fully at English Steel. EM/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} | ||