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).
Copy of a letter from J.Payen Limited regarding the manufacture and supply of gaskets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\4\ Scan377 | |
| Date | 17th July 1933 | |
| COPY. of letter received from: Messrs. J.Payen Limited., Church Wharf, Chiswick, London.W.4. Your ref. ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/MS.1/FS.{F. Steele} Ours. E/8600. Rolls Royce Limited., DERBY. 17th July 1933. Dear Sirs, We acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th instant and in reply would inform you that we shall be very pleased to make the gaskets required and deliver in 14 days at a price of 7/6d each. nett. We are now making a speciality of making gaskets in copper and asbestos in rather unusual thicknesses, and we have even reduced the thickness of certain gaskets down to as low as .016". As a matter of interest we are sending a sample cylinder head gasket which we are supplying for fitting to the Gardner Oil engine vehicles. Assuring you of our close co-operation. Yours faithfully, For J.Payen Limited., | ||