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 regarding sending a Wraith carburetter to fix a car and a search for an efficient axle fan for tank cooling.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\5\ scan0147 | |
| Date | 13th February 1941 | |
| 261(2) 13th February, 1941. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/RH.{R. Hollingworth} Your ref: RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}1/BS{A J. Barnes - Assistant Manager}/10.2.41. R.H. Coverley Esq., Rotol Airscrews Limited, Cheltenham Road, G L O U C E S T E R.{Sir Henry Royce} Dear Bob, Thank you for your letter of the 10th. I am glad you have been able to release Lewis as I think he will be very useful to us. I suggest that, in order to avoid a long journey, we send you the Wraith carburetter which we know to be correct and that Lewis tries this on Sir Stanley White's car before he leaves you. If this does not cure the trouble, we will go further into the matter. Lewis, however, knows just about as much about the Wraith carburetter as anyone we have here whom we could send, since our specialist is now working on the Merlin. I have recently been wanting an efficient axle fan for tank cooling and have been going round the country trying to get something suitable. I have been astonished at the lack of technical ability amongst the commercial fan manufacturers such as Keith Blackburn, and I finally managed to get the information I wanted from the Wooden Airscrews Company, Weybridge. It seems to me that if ever Rotols are short of work after the war, they could without a great deal of difficulty, collar a good deal of the Keith Blackburn business. However, perhaps you will feel that the industrial fan is rather too crude to mix up with V.P. propellors. Yours sincerely, | ||