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).
The return and exchange of Wakefield's Hi-press oil.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 145\2\ scan0159 | |
| Date | 18th August 1937 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}12/AP.18.8.37 WAKEFIELD'S HI-PRESS OIL. With regard to our memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}17/JH.16.8.37. asking you to ensure that none of the last 3 - 50 gallon barrels of Hi-press oil should be used, will you please now return this to Wakefields in exchange for Hi-press oil of the original type. We have explained to them that we are not yet in a position to standardise the modified oil which was supplied to our last order. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||