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Required modifications to a plunger spring for the New Phantom side lever mechanism.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 68\1\  scan0117
Date  17th November 1925
  
X 8450
To C. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

RHC {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} 12/BE. 17.11.25.

RE NEW PHANTOM(Codename for PHANTOM I) SIDE LEVER MECH: N.S.2079

With reference to the Improved Change Speed Mechanism to N.S. 2079. We omitted to mentioned in our RHC {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} 11/BE. 28.10.25. when dealing with Spring for Change Gear Shaft that Plunger Spring G.72968 used in Selector Shaft should also be modified.

The Spring as used on Experimental cars is as follows:-

Free Length .875.
Dia. of Wire .036 (20 SWG)
Complete Coils - 6.
Load required to compress to .550 - 2.5 lbs.

Would you therefore issue the necessary alterations.

RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
  
  
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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