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).
Confirming the matrix type for a new 25/30 radiator and the status of the Mark VI matrix test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 105\1\ scan0251 | |
| Date | 23th March 1936 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} x540 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.4/JH. 23.3.36. In reply to your memo.- Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/MS.17/P.12.3.36. the matrix instructed for the new 25/30 radiator with unbalanced shutters is the 58 m.m. Mark V type. We have not yet run a 25/30 Mark VI matrix on a 10,000 miles test, and Marstons have not yet reached the production stage with this type of matrix. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||