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).
Instruction memo regarding the casting of Vanadium Aluminium Alloy into pistons and test pieces.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 181\M11\ img006 | |
| Date | 22th November 1915 | |
| 19W Vanadium Aluminium Alloy. Mr Roney. 22.11.15. Mcr16/L221115. Mr Kesterton. Mr Nadin now instructs that the two cwt. of the above alloy should now be handed to Mr Kesterton and cast up into 18 Pistons, 2 tensile test pieces, and 2 Upton-Lewis test pieces. He states that it is to be treated as ordinary aluminium alloy. Mcr. M | ||