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Request to prepare a set of longer connecting rods with Spectre size small ends for testing in a Bentley.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 87\2\  scan0085
Date  2nd November 1935
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Mths. {Reg Matthews} 2/KW. 2.11.35.

Will you please prepare another set of longer connecting rods similar to B.V. 89 as fitted in B-2 unit, but with Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) size of small end if possible.

We wish to try Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) pistons in a car such as Bentley with cast-iron cylinder block.

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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