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).
Patenting improvements to the sequence silent starter.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 64\3\ scan0004 | |
| Date | 3rd January 1924 | |
| X.8650 E3/M3.1.24. To BY/NW.{N. Walker - Patents} from E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} c. to BJ. EFC. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} RE IMPROVED SEQUENCE SILENT STARTER. X.4168B. X.8650. We thank you for your memo BY/NW{N. Walker - Patents}6/VM21.12.23., and for copy of specification No.172153. We note that this specification carries the question of the sequence silent starter as far as drawing LeC. 1622. We now attach LeC.1802 shewing the improvements described by Mr. Royce in his memo. R3/M1124. We should be glad if you would communicate the necessary information to Messrs. Claremont Haynes & Co. to enable a patent of addition to be taken out to protect these improvements. If you will handle this matter with Messrs. Claremont Haynes & Co. it will save our time which is very considerably taken up with other matters at the present moment. We think the drawing and description makes the scheme quite clear, especially when it is referred to in connection with the original scheme LeC.1622., but Mr. Clark will no doubt render any assistance that is required. We should be glad if you would send us a blue print or if possible a coloured record of LeC.1802 and if you would pass this drawing on to Mr. Clark when you have finished with it. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||