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 Spauldings Ltd following up on samples of Oil and Water Packing and flexible fibre for washers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\1\ scan0219 | |
| Date | 20th April 1938 | |
| +2.80. 1269. SPAULDINGS LD. 40 Gloucester Way · Clerkenwell · London · EC1 Telegrams - Vulcafibra Phone-London Telephone - Terminus 1141 (4 Lines) Our Ref: C/SA. Your Ref: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.2/AP. 20th April, 1938. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, We submitted a sample of our Oil and Water Packing and flexible fibre on the 4th April in connection with your enquiry for Washers No. EW.1666. We shall be pleased to know whether either of these materials is suited to your requirements, or if there is anything further you wish us to do in the matter. Yours faithfully, pp. SPAULDINGS LTD. H.J.W.Couzens. Actual manufacturers of - highest-grade Vulcanised Fibre, hard and flexible, including Spauldings' Super Grey, 'Armite' brand of Leatheroid, Oil and Water packing. Spaulding-Bakelite - Horn Fibre and Flaxite - Ebonite - Presspahn - Special machined shapes of the above | ||