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 Bakelite Limited regarding a special moulding material for self-lubricating bearings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61\1\ scan0194 | |
| Date | 16th December 1931 | |
| HEAD OFFICES: 68, VICTORIA STREET LONDON, S.W.1 TELEGRAMS: BAKELITE, LONDON TELEPHONE: VICTORIA 5441 (4 LINES) WORKS: WARWICK ROAD, GREET BIRMINGHAM TELEGRAMS: DAMARDEST, BIRMINGHAM TELEPHONE: ACOCKS GREEN 557/8 AND AT DARLEY DALE, DERBYSHIRE PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMPANY AND BAKELITE LIMITED Successors to The Damard Lacquer Co., Ltd. & Mouldensite Ltd. Damard Works, Warwick Road, Greet, BIRMINGHAM. X6011 REGD. TRADE B MARKS (TREFOIL) BAKELITE MOULDING MATERIAL INSULATING VARNISH TRANSPARENT LAMINATED CEMENT LACQUER, RESIN QUOTE WEP/FF. Your Ref. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.6/AD. 16th December, 1931. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, We are in receipt of your letter of December 14th and note that you are interested in a moulding material for self lubricating bearings. We presume from your last paragraph that you have carried out some preliminary tests on this subject and that you have found the standard type of material unsatisfactory. We are therefore putting in hand some samples of a special material, mouldings from which shall have self lubricating properties and which also shall have a higher heat conductivity than is usual in standard Bakelite Moulding Materials. One of our technical representatives will call with this sample at your Works on Friday afternoon next, if this is convenient to you, as we feel that a discussion on this matter would probably be of advantage to you. Yours faithfully, For BAKELITE LIMITED. C B Pattman Sales Development Dept. WST | ||