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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 obtain various lengths and types of varnished fabric covered chassis cable from Ripaults Ltd.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 59\1\  Scan017
Date  9th March 1932
  
Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/Ms. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.
X6040
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.3/AD9.3.32.

VARNISHED FABRIC COVERED CHASSIS CABLE.

With regard to the above, and confirming our various conversations, we should like you to obtain for us as soon as possible from Ripaults Ltd. the following lengths of wire.

The conductor strands we have given as per our standard specification and we should like them to adhere to these if no appreciable extra expense is incurred, otherwise we should like them to supply us with their own standard stranded conductors as near as possible to the cross-sectional area represented by our specification.

(a) 40 ft. of three core cable, varnished cambric covered, black. The conductors to be 2 - 90/36 S.W.G. and 1 - 40/36 S.W.G. and the rubber dielectric colours to be red and black for the 90/36 and blue for the 40/36.

(b) 60 ft. of two core cable, varnished cambric covered, black. The conductors to be 90/36 each coloured red and blue.

(c) 36 ft. single core varnished cambric covered, yellow. The conductor to be 40/36.

(d) 90 ft. single core varnished cambric covered, white. The conductor to be 40/36.

(e) 150 ft. single core varnished cambric covered, green. The conductor to be 40/36.

(f) 50 ft. single core varnished cambric covered, red. The conductor to be 90/36.

(g) 75 ft. single core varnished cambric covered, buff or brown. The conductor to be 40/36 or 14/30.

(h) 45 ft. 84/25 starter cable varnished cambric covered, black.
  
  


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