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).
Experiments on a Phantom combined spare wheel carrier and luggage grid.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\2\ scan0109 | |
| Date | 20th August 1927 | |
| To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to BJ. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 48400 DAL/M20.8.27. PHANTOM COMBINED SPARE WHEEL CARRIER X.8600 AND LUGGAGE GRID AT REAR. X.8400 In view of the statement of the Co's policy which you have recently given us (BY8/H15.8.27) it appears to be necessary to persist with the experiments in connection with carrying the wheel off one tube only. We send herewith N.sch.2441 shewing how we suggest the experiment should be arranged the next time. It will be seen that we have strengthened the lugs, but otherwise the arrangement is as originally instructed. With reg reference to the broken pieces we do not understand why they were not brazed to the tube as the original pieces were brazed. Evidently it would have very much strengthened them had this been done. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||