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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 from a supplier confirming the dispatch of flexible exhaust piping, explaining a size difference due to metric tooling.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 27a\3\  Scan010
Date  7th April 1933
  
TELEPHONE: TOTTENHAM 4106-7.
ON ADMIRALTY LIST.
TELEGRAMS: "AEROFLEXPHONE, LONDON."
BENTLEY'S CODE.
DIRECTORS: A.C. GILLMAN, MAJ. SIR J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} R.{Sir Henry Royce} MALONE, W.O. MANN, M.C. MILLAR.
THE POWER FLEXIBLE TUBING CO., LTD.,
MANUFACTURERS OF "TUBOFLEX" FLEXIBLE METALLIC TUBING.
"AEROFLEX" Pneumatic Hose
MONOMARK:- B.C.M/METFLEX.
DERBY WORKS, FINSBURY PARK,
LONDON, N. 4.
7th April 1933.
Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd.,
Nightingale Road,
Derby.
Dear Sirs,
Order No.44328.
We wish to inform you that we are despatching under separate cover two lengths of Flexible exhaust Piping, one being 70 mm bore and the other 80 mm bore. We shall be pleased to hear if either size will be suitable for your requirements for which you ordered 3".
As before mentioned all our tools are in millimetre sizes and the above are the nearest we have to 3".
Awaiting the favour of your reply, and assuring you of our attention at all times, we remain,
Yours faithfully,
FOR THE POWER FLEXIBLE TUBING CO., LTD.
AB/EB.
  
  


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