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Request to fit new bushes to Spectre pistons due to them being too slack in the gudgeon pin bores.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 94\5\  scan0098
Date  5th August 1935
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

X336

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Mths. {Reg Matthews} 4/KW.5.8.35

Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) Pistons.

We have now run the first set of Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) pistons ground to Aerolite No.10 cam in B-2 unit, and the bushes are too slack in the gudgeon pin bores. We should like the pistons fitted with new bushes.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /R.Matthews.
  
  
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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