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 Brown Alloy Works in Detroit regarding the potential use of their X-Alloy for high expansion cylinder liners and shock damper bushes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\4\ img237 | |
| Date | 25th January 1936 | |
| USA Exptl. Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}5/KW. 25th January, 1936. Walter Brown, Esq., The Brown Alloy Works, 14,400 Woodrow Wilson avenue, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. Dear Mr. Brown, Since returning to England I have discussed your X-Alloy with our Engineers. Their chief interest lies in a metal of this hardness, but having the expansion of an austenitic steel. I think you told me that the alloy in its present form had the expansion of ordinary cast-iron. Will you let me know whether you could make us some high expansion cylinder liners, in which case we would send the drawings to you. Meanwhile we should very much like to try some shock damper lever bushes in which the coefficient of expansion is of no importance. Could you send us a dozen each of the attached F.100879 and F.85059. Thank you for my entertainment in Cleveland. Yours sincerely, | ||