Request to manufacture a nipple and supply parts to connect a new carburetter on a lighting engine at Elmstead.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 34\4\ Scan206 | |
| Date | 20th September 1930 | |
| RHC {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} (Handwritten) HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Y-2048 (Handwritten) El/M20.9.30. Would you please have made a nipple to fit present car type petrol filter, but to take .250 O.D. pipe, and send it to W.W. with a suitable union nut and 4 ft. of .250 O.D. copper tube. This is to join up the new carburetter with present filter on lighting engine at Elmstead(Henry Royce's home in West Wittering). E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} [Signature] (Handwritten in red ink): HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Material requested has been dispatched LHC | ||
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).