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).
Supply and retention of 40mm gun barrels for an Air Ministry contract.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 176\1\ img092 | |
| Date | 1st October 1940 | |
| To-HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Ve. c. to Ws. c. to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to Ir/Erne: c. to G/Rb.{R. Bowen} 5 Ve.7/CB.1.10.40. 40 mm. Type BD{Mr Berend} Gun As the B.U.S.M. will presumably make their own arrangements for the supply of barrels for the 500 guns on their contract, we should take steps to retain 25 of the 40 mm. barrels now being made at Nottingham to build into the guns ordered by the Air Ministry Contract B.144506/40/C.11.c. Ve. S.W.Poole | ||