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Request to remove floatex brackets and fit plain brackets to test Phantom III rubbers on the body side.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 7\5\  X 604 Body-page160
Date  17th December 1937
  
To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /PD.
c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}

Handwritten: 604

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /PD.3/WH.17.12.37.

26.9.6.

With the exception of the four body brackets in the wheel arch, will you please have all the other brackets containing floatex removed, and plain brackets with .75" hole to correspond with the previous bolt centres fitted, we wish to try P.III rubbers along the body side only.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /PD.
  
  
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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