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).
Request to make and fit three Ballast Resistances for standardisation tests on a Bentley Chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\5\ img064 | |
| Date | 18th December 1936 | |
| 6145. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wst.10/JH.18.12.36. Bentley Chassis. Will you please have three Ballast Resistances made for us using 39" (including 1 1/2" each end for connection) for 22 S.W.G. "Glowray" wire and fit two of these to chassis B-23-AE and 5-B-IV along with standard Phantom III ignition coils for standardisation tests. Completed Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wst. | ||