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 modify flexible fan blades and build them onto a hub for a 10,000-mile trial on a Phantom 28-EX.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\7\ Scan066 | |
| Date | 16th July 1934 | |
| x7220 RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.2/MA.16.7.34. We send you herewith a set of four flexible fan blades and a modified American Variable Pitch fan. Will you please modify the shape of these blades and have them built onto a hub to form a similar fan to the above mentioned variable pitch one. We wish to run this fan on the next 10,000 miles Phantom - 28-EX. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||