Request to fit a heat shield to the silencer of 8-EX and to borrow a Phantom throttle governor casing for testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 66a\3\ scan0115 | |
| Date | 14th May 1927 | |
| To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Handwritten: X8140 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 2/LG14.5.27. Will you please arrange to fit a heat shield on the silencer of 8-EX as soon as the parts are available. Also will you please let us have one Phantom throttle governor casing fitted with ball bearing shaft for test purposes. If you have not a spare available we could borrow one off an existing car as we shall only require it for a few days. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief 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).