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 to Commander Gilbert regarding an instruction book, trial weapons, and an Oerlikon handbook.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 175\3\ img129 | |
| Date | 6th September 1940 | |
| C O P Y. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}7/ML. 6.9.40. Commander W.R. GILBERT, H.M.S. EXCELLENT, PORTSMOUTH. Dear Commander Gilbert, Thank you for your letter of the 2nd September. The instruction book is well in hand and we will let you have some preliminary abbreviated notes on the gun operation at the same time as the first two service trial weapons are delivered. The Oerlikon handbook was most useful and it will be returned to you in the immediate future. Yours faithfully, For ROLLS ROYCE LTD. p.p. W.A. ROBOTHAM. | ||