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).
Loss of travel issue with the horizontal hand brake lever for the Spectre model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\4\ scan0083 | |
| Date | 8th July 1935 | |
| x306 GRY.{Shadwell Grylls} To E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} from HDY.{William Hardy} c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Ey. HDY.{William Hardy}1/HP.8.7.35. SECRET. Horizontal Hand Brake Lever - SpectreCodename for Phantom III. Further to Hdy.{William Hardy}2/HP.2.7.35 and the loss of 1" of travel of the handle of the lever on 3.S.1, the only way we can account for this is that there must be one or more of the parts concerned not in the designed position. Also there may not have been any need to raise the handle as much as 1". We cannot tell where the fault lies until the car returns but we have checked the floor height on both 1.S.1 and 2.S.1 and in both cases it is correct within .125". The matting adds less than .250" so the height from the top of the frame to the top of the matting is 2.250 + .125. Our allowance between the underside of the handle and the top of the frame is 3.250" so there should be not less than 7/8" underneath the handle. Even if this is thought to be insufficient an extra .250" should be all that is required. HDY.{William Hardy} | ||