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Requesting the creation of yoke pieces to test a reduced castor angle on a Phantom III vehicle.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 95\1\  scan0412
Date  28th May 1937
  
To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}

35D

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} 2/AP.28.5.37

Ph.III. Steering

We wish to try reduced castor angle on a Ph.III. with Wraith wheel movement suspension levers. Will you please make for 39-EX. a pair of yoke pieces to the attached Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 383. We believe that these can be made from the existing type of forging.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. 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).


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