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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).
Confirming verbal instructions for fitting clutches to car 23-EX and a test bed engine.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 13\7\  07-page066
Date  15th August 1930
  
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} X7480.
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}1/W.15.8.30.

CLUTCHES - PHANTOM. X.7480.
X.7305.

To confirm verbal instructions.

We should like 23-EX. fitting up with a Std. clutch, using the pressure driving, and back plate that was last tested on the test bed engine marked 900 tests.

The test bed engine clutch to be changed from a Std. clutch to one with the fabric on the driven plate using cast iron pressure and back plate circular, woven fabric to be used.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}
  
  


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