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 the fitting of special Copper and Asbestos cylinder head gaskets to two Phantom III units.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\4\ scan0104 | |
| Date | 26th January 1937 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} d 319 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}5/AP.26.1.37. PHANTOM III. CYLINDER HEAD JOINTS. In reply to your memo HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel}3/VS.{J. Vickers}25.1.37., will you please fit two of the special Copper and Asbestos gaskets to No.6. unitwhich is now being assembled for endurance and two in No.3. unit which is at present dismantled in the Shop. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||