Secret memo discussing the car programme, specifically a proposal to introduce the Spectre engine into the Phantom chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 11\1\ 01-page47 | |
| Date | 12th February 1935 | |
| SECRET, [Handwritten top]: X 7770X700 [Handwritten top]: +300 [Handwritten left]: hvs To Wer. from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Car Programme. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 4/E12.2.35 Copy to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} E. Referring to my note re the question of whether we are to build more Phantoms or not, a suggestion has been made which seems worthy of serious consideration, and that is as follows: Could we introduce the Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) engine in the Phantom chassis and so have the car available fairly early? The worst feature of the Phantom is its large 6-cylinder engine - the rest of the chassis is pretty good. If we did this, it would be following much the same procedure as when we changed over from the Silver Ghost(1907 40/50 historic RAC 15,000 miles trial) to P.I and then later to P.II. Apart from the fact that it would apparently - so far as I can see - enable us to have something new to sell fairly quickly, it would also limit our risk to the engine, whereas the complete Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) chassis has so much new in it that one feels nervous of its being introduced in any sort of hurry. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||
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).