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Instructions for fitting a tappet holding off scheme and other components to a Phantom III unit.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 96\2\  scan0079
Date  18th November 1935
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

X354

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell} 19/KW.18.11.35.

Phantom III.

Will you please fit the tappet holding off scheme to LeC.4675 on No.3 unit which came out of No. 1 chassis.

The detail drawing of the tappet E.87485 shews it to be chrome plated. This plating should be deleted, the tappet in S/ZN being normally hardened by the cloudburst process.

In conjunction with this scheme a new standard camshaft should be fitted to Ex.18044.

The new cylinder heads complete with tappets to Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell} 9/KW.25.10.35. should also be fitted.

As we shall want to carry out tests at high speeds will you please see if the bearings are in fairly good condition.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /L.H.Swindall.
  
  
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