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 supplier Le Carbone Ltd. to Bentley Motors requesting details of Dynamo & Starter Carbon Brushes for their latest car models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 166\1\ img095 | |
| Date | 5th April 1937 | |
| CONTRACTORS TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, CORPORATIONS & PRINCIPAL RAILWAYS, &c. LE CARBONE LTD. (Formerly LE CARBONE, Estd. 1890.) SPENCER HOUSE, SOUTH PLACE, LONDON, E.C.2. ENGLAND. A.B.C. Code 4th & 5th Universal Trade Code. Telephone: National 4536/7. Telegrams: Lacombe, Ave, London. BATTERY WORKS : PORTSLADE, SUSSEX. The Le Carbone Products are known throughout the World. [Left Box] CARBON BRUSHES for all types of Electrical Machines. ELECTRO-GRAPHITIC CARBON FAN, MAGNETO and Automobile Brushes CARBON PACKING RINGS CARBONS for Telephone Apparatus WELDING CARBONS Givrite Resistances. [Right Box] "A D" (Air Depolarising) PRIMARY CELLS for large and small outputs. WET CELLS DRY CELLS H.T. BATTERIES. DIRECTORS : R.{Sir Henry Royce} OPPENHEIM (FRENCH) CAPTN. R.{Sir Henry Royce} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} PINTO (BRITISH) URMSON WILLAN (BRITISH) 6093 5th April, 1937. Messrs. Bentley Motors (1931) Ltd., Service Depot, Kingsbury Road, Hendon, N.W.9. Dear Sirs, Renewal of Dynamo & Starter Carbon Brush Would you be kind enough to indicate the types of brushes used on the Electrical Equipment of your latest car models. We require this information for the benefit of our Trade customers who expect such information to figure in our catalogue and in order to be up-to-date we hope you will be kind enough to supply these particulars. We believe that the Equipments are of Lucas make but if it gives you no trouble to reply we shall be extremely obliged to you. In thanking you in anticipation, Wn We are, Yours faithfully, FOR LE CARBONE LTD. [Stamps] RECEIVED APR 7 1937 APR ... G.O | ||