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Impregnation of aluminium castings with silicate of soda.


Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\A\September1917\  Scan6
Date  26th September 1917
  
To Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}
c. to EH.
c. to Kstrtn.
ORIGINAL.
St. {Capt. P. R. Strong} Margaret's Bay.
3
28 SEP 1917
Sept. 26th, 1917.
RECEIVED
X3032 Re - Impregnating Aluminium Castings.
R8/W26917.
With reference to impregnating the aluminium castings with silicate of soda, I should think this would be so very simple that it might be tried on such castings as are only slightly porous. I should not recommend that the definitely bad ones were treated in this way, but scrapped.
R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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