Request to manufacture a Phantom III camshaft with long toes to test dispensing with silent tappets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\5\ scan0029 | |
| Date | 11th January 1936 | |
| To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x307 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Smth,10/KW.11.1.36. Phantom III Camshaft. We wish to try a camshaft in Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) with long toes, in the hope that we may be able to dispense with silent tappets. Will you please accordingly make us a shaft to Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 44. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 42 shows the form, which has been developed from the 20/25. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Smth. | ||
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).