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).
Testing and replication of an American flexible bladed fan for the Spectre II model for France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\3\ scan0102 | |
| Date | 19th September 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X300a (2) Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.15/KW.19.9.35. Fan for SpectreCodename for Phantom III II for France. We send you herewith an American flexible bladed fan which we have tested in its present form and found successful. We wish to run a similar fan, i.e., one whose blades flatten out at high speeds, on SpectreCodename for Phantom III II for France. Such a fan has been instructed in Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.2/MA.16.7.35, but was never completed. Will you please have a copy of this fan made, omitting the rubber moulding of the blades and making the blades in one with the carrying arms. We should like this fitted to SpectreCodename for Phantom III II if possible: if not we will forward it to Hancock to test in France. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||