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Low-speed wobbles on a Phantom III chassis, 3.AZ.214, and arranging for modified parts to be sent to Paris.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 146\3\  scan0216
Date  9th December 1936
  
To Rolls Royce Ltd.
DERBY................Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
Copy to ...............

1245

Levallois
Sr/VA15/GM.9.12.36

re: Phantom 111 LOW SPEED WOBBLES
CHASSIS 3.AZ.214
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With reference to our Sr/VA1/ET.2.12.36

WE WROTE TO Mx. {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} as per our Sr/VA3/ET.2.12.36 asking whether modified ball pads and washers to Blue Prints N°. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 130 and 132 had been fitted to chassis 3.AZ.214 which was fairly recently delivered to Kellners the Coachbuilders. Mx. {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} has informed us as per his MX {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} /JWI7/T.4.12.36 that modified ball pads and washers have not been fitted to this chassis.

Will you please arrange that a set is sent to us for this chassis. We attach our Official order n°. 1227 to D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /B's copy of this memo.

F.J.H. Please arrange for a set to be despatched to Paris - Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Sr/VA.1/4
  
  
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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