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 from Hardy Spicer & Co. confirming a telegram and promising delivery of a shaft.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 87\3\ scan0029 | |
| Date | 25th March 1935 | |
| ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. Telegrams & Cables: "AUTOJOINTS, BIRMINGHAM". Code: BENTLEY'S PHRAZE. Hardy Spicer & Co., Limited. Telephone: BIRCHFIELDS 4504/8 (5 LINES). Registered Offices and Works: Birch Road, Witton, Birmingham, 6. Manufacturers & Patentees of THE SPICER UNIVERSAL JOINTS & PROPELLER SHAFTS. Manufacturers & Patentees of THE HARDY FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS & PROPELLER SHAFTS. Manufacturers & Patentees of THE BRITISH BOUND BROOK OIL-LESS BEARINGS. Manufacturers & Patentees of COMPO OIL RETAINING BEARINGS. Our Reference JMcC/P Your Reference March 25th 1935. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY Dear Sirs, Attention Experimental Department Order No. 79965. We confirm our telegram in reply to yours, promising delivery of the shaft against the above order by passenger train tomorrow. If we are able to despatch the shaft during the morning or early afternoon, we will wire you the time of the train. Yours faithfully, for HARDY SPICER & CO. LIMITED. JMcCormick Production Department. Handwritten notes: Top Left: RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Top Right: X237 Left side: HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} This is in connection with 5BT{Capt. J. S. Burt - Engineer} I believe. MTC. Right side: Recd 26.3.35 | ||