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 order half a dozen experimental gaskets using aluminium sheets and soft steel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\3\ Scan026 | |
| Date | 13th December 1928 | |
| ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} cyl? X7050 BY9/G.13.12.28. We would like to have some gaskets for our SS.{S. Smith} chassis, made up with aluminium sheets instead of copper, and using soft annealed low carbon steel sheet for the washers or ferrules. Would you kindly order half a dozen of these for experimental test. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} By | ||