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).
Urgent internal order request for 24 linings from supplier Messrs. Ferodo.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 141\3\ scan0030 | |
Date | 5th December 1930 | |
Order Office from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x717. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/AD5.12.30. Will you please obtain for us from Messrs. Ferodo 24 linings to G 74743. We are very urgently in need of 8 of these linings, and as they are standard dimensions which Messrs. Ferodo have been supplying us for the last 18 months, we presume that they would be able to get them through quickly. If you would ask them on the 'phone what they could do we would send a car over to collect the linings as soon as they are ready. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||