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 for the urgent production of a developed camshaft for the Continental Phantom No. 14 Unit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\6\ scan0111 | |
| Date | 2nd February 1937 | |
| SECRET. 300B To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl{Len H. Swindell}/9m/2.2.37. Continental Phantom No. 14 Unit. Will you please produce a camshaft having Inlet and Exhaust cam forms to RM.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 98. The exhaust cam to lead its respective inlet cam by 116½° The layout of the camshaft otherwise to be as E88127. This is a development based on the results we have obtained on the 1st Continental camshaft Ex. 23245 and is urgently required. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||