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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).
Progress of urgent designed jobs for Bentley and Phantom III models.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 155\2\  scan0041
Date  22th January 1937
  
To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}

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Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}5/AP.22.1.37.

PROGRESS OF DESIGNED JOBS.

The following are the most urgent jobs required and we should be pleased if you could approximate when they will be completed.

BENTLEY

(1) Modified cylinder head LeC.5367.
(2) Induction for above head LeC.3230/1/2.
(3) Increased journal crank crankcase and ribbed sump LeC.5433.
(4) Short duration camshaft with long toes. LeC.5426.

PHANTOM III.

(1) Short duration camshaft with long toes. LeC.5401.
(2) Solid rockers LeC.5441.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}
  
  


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