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 to the Harrison Radiator Division of General Motors regarding oil coolers and thermostats.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\3\ scan0207 | |
| Date | 16th October 1937 | |
| 1278 ? 16th October 1937. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.6/AP. Harrison Radiator Division, General Motors Corporation, LOCKPORT, NEW YORK. U.S.A. For the attention of L.P.Saunders Esq. Dear Mr.Saunders, Have received your letter of Oct.6th. Iam still digesting the mass of information contained therein - you people in the States certainly seem to have the lowdown on anything connected with automobiles! By now you will have probably received my letter of October 6th, referring to oil coolers, and containing a request for two or three sample coolers of the hydrogen brazed type for test. I would also be very grateful if you could let us have enough loose parts to make up two or three coolers as I wish to try to find somebody in this Country capable of making these coolers eventually. The same remarks apply to thermostats. I already have some sample thermostats supplied by your Mr.Smith, but would like a few sets of loose parts for these thermostats in order to try our hand at building them up. I am interested in this because I believe that your built up type of bellows is a better job than the spun tube bellows which is almost exclusively used over here. I do not know what the position is as regards patents, exclusive rights etc. in the case of these oil coolers and thermostats, I assume that if there is any objection to our endeavouring to get these articles made over here, you will not hesitate to advise me of same. If there is no objection to this procedure, any advice as regards difficulties in manufacturing these | ||