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).
Requesting an order for modified 'Spectre Clutch' plates for testing due to sales complaints.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\3\ scan0060 | |
| Date | 5th October 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x312 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}10/KW.5.10.35. SpectreCodename for Phantom III Clutch. We send you herewith a marked up blue print, Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2179, showing a clutch driven plate in which the staggered portions are stiffer in bending than the present standard plate. Will you please order half a dozen of these for test as soon as possible, as Sales are complaining bitterly of the take up of the present clutch. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||