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 discussing drawings for pistons and a potential collaboration on aluminium body construction with Park Ward.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\1\ img042 | |
| Date | 11th November 1938 | |
| 1221 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 11th November, 1938. S.S. Tresilian, Esq., Templewood Engineering Co.,Ltd., 490, Ipswich Road, Trading Estate, SLOUGH, Bucks Dear Tan., Herewith drawings of our latest split and un-split pistons. I am not very enthusiastic about the wheel. I am, however enthusiastic about aluminium body construction. It strikes me that in a Park Ward construction you have a marvellous opportunity of trying out aluminium without getting involved in big quantities. At the moment, however, Park Wards are busy getting down to making a steel body for a reasonable price, and, therefore, I think it would be inopportune to approach them for 2/3 months. In the mean-time if you will get 'chapter and verse' of all the extruded sections and data available, etc., we would like to talk the whole matter over with you, and then we could go down to Park Ward's together. It maybe that we shall have to come to some financial arrangement on the job, because, certainly if I were Park Ward I should hesitate to spend a lot of money on such an advanced project. If we could co-operate financially, undoubtedly, the job would go along much more practically. One way to do it would be to get Devereux to give them an order to build him an aluminium body, with a fairly wide price margin. If you want to see what Park Wards are doing at present, we could get Evenden, or someone, to go down there with you, so that you could get in contact with the right people, and see exactly what is being done. | ||