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 samples of various moulded insulating materials from a list of specified suppliers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 39\3\ Scan049 | |
| Date | 13th April 1921 | |
| To Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} from EFC. c. EWT. X.3513 EFC2/T13.4.21. X.2694 - MOULDED INSULATING MATERIALS. X3513 X4361 We should be glad if you could obtain for us sample moulded insulation materials. The samples should be in sheets about .0625" by 4" square and rods about .500" dia. by 6" long, also sample bushes or other specimens. As regards materials, we would like Bakelite, which should be obtainable from the B.T.H. Company who may also supply the raw material, some of which it would be interesting to compare with some raw material Bedalite which we already have from the Watford Company. N.B. Bakelite sheet is also supplied by Archibald Campbell, 8, Wolseley Road, N.8. (Agents for the Swiss Insulating Works). Also Beldalite which should be obtainable from the Beldam Tyre Co. Windmill Road, Brentford, Middlesex. Also Birkby's moulded insulation from Fleming, Birkby & Goodall, Ltd., Liversedge, Yorks. Also Solidite, supplied by The Improved Solidite Co. Ltd., Advance Works, Jews Row, Wandsworth, London, S.W.18. Also Lapilac from the Lapilac (1919) Ltd., West Drayton, Middlesex. We understand you have already ordered high tension wiring tube covered with Lapilac from this Firm. As regards Condensite, you might obtain samples of this through our U.S.A. Co. from the Condensite Company Contd. | ||