Reversing a decision to stop producing Phantoms, instead ordering an additional 25 to be made.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 11\1\ 01-page45 | |
| Date | 26th November 1934 | |
| x97500 To Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to E.Lid. {A. J. Lidsey} Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} W.Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Cx. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} re Phantoms. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 17/W26.11.34 Confirming conversation on the telephone, after further considerable careful consideration we want to reverse our decision about no more Phantoms and to ask you to make 25 more. I understand you think you can do this without breaking continuity of output and our idea would be to take them at the rate of 4 a week. We had considered the matter carefully before I came to Derby but it is a case of second thoughts seeming best and a question of which course of action is likely to produce the least risks. I will explain in greater detail our reasons for changing our minds when I see you on Friday. This will of course absorb 25 of the sets of bar and billet material which we had previously ordered. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||
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).