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 to despatch a Phantom III petrol tank to body builders and to provide its total weight.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 95\4\ scan0231 | |
| Date | 9th January 1937 | |
| ✓ 351. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}13/JH.9.1.37. Will you please obtain and despatch to Messrs. Barker the body builders, one Phantom III petrol tank with side filler complete to LOP.88987. This will only be required till the lightened tank is finished and is to enable the body builders to fit the side filter. Will you please let me have the weight of the tank complete with electrical unit side filler, a cap pipe connection and supporting brackets to enable the weight of the body to be obtained. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/J.B.Dixon. | ||