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 The British Thomson-Houston Company Ltd declining an enquiry for a generator, citing high workload.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\3\ img350 | |
| Date | 1st March 1937 | |
| 6099 WST THE BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON COMPANY LTD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS AND MANUFACTURERS. SUBSIDIARY OF ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED. REGISTERED OFFICE: CROWN HOUSE, ALDWYCH, LONDON, W.C.2. HEAD OFFICE: RUGBY WORKS RUGBY, WILLESDEN, BIRMINGHAM, COVENTRY, CHESTERFIELD. TELEGRAMS: ASTEROIDAL, RUGBY. CODES: A.B.C. BENTLEY'S, MARCONI, SCHOFIELD'S, WESTERN UNION. TELEPHONE No. 2121 Ext. YOUR REFERENCE: R.{Sir Henry Royce}/Wst.S/H OUR REFERENCE: INDUSTRIAL MOTOR SALES LOM{Mr Lombard}/CollMO RUGBY. 1st March 1937 Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your esteemed enquiry of the 27th ultimo which we have only just received but very much regret that we are unable to put forward a generator which would comply with your requirements regarding dimensions. A generator having the required overload capacity and having a suitably large external fan could be specially designed within these dimensions, but we regret that owing to the volume of work we have on hand at the present time we are not able to undertake this development work. We believe that Messrs. Newton Bros., of Derby would have something suitable to offer and we therefore suggest that you put the proposition up to them. Again thanking you for this enquiry. Yours faithfully, J.S. RAMSDEN. MANAGER - INDUSTRIAL SALES per: YHaywood ECW/JJ. | ||