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, B. N. Purdy, concerning an enquiry for vee-section automobile belts and other drive belts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 135\1\ scan0130 | |
| Date | 2nd March 1938 | |
| 1135 B. N. PURDY, Impregnated Products. LEYLAND STREET MILLS, DERBY. TELEPHONE DERBY 4304. Our Ref. Your Ref Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std./JH. March 2nd. 1938 Messrs Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby. h/o liu Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/sop Processed Cords, Tapes, Bands and Twines for all purposes. Sea and Weather resisting Cords for Maritime use. SPECIALITY Endless Belts for High Speed Drives, Specially fabricated and processed to ensure Efficient Transmission, Grip, Strength and Durability without permanent stretch. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter of the 1st. inst., enquiring for vee section automobile belts. We have not yet made our new belt in this shape, but contemplate doing so in the immediate future. If you care to let us have the necessary measurements, including pitch, we shall be very pleased to make and submit for your trial, entirely without obligation, a specimen belt to suit your requirements, at the earliest possible moment. In the meantime, we enclose herewith a small sample of this belt as applicable to High Speed Drills, Grinders, Milling Machines, Centrifuges etc., being similar to the sample we sent you on January 26th. In this case also, if you will be good enough to let us have the necessary details, we shall be very pleased to send you a belt for trial. We need not recount the particular advantages of this drive, which will be obvious to your good-selves, and feel sure that the test we suggest will prove its efficiency and long life. Yours faithfully, B N Purdy | ||