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Instructions regarding a revised top plate for rubber-mounted rear springs on a Phantom III chassis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 95\2\  scan0051
Date  23th March 1936
  
[Signature] x346 BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /HEB {H. Biraben} 20/M.23.3.36.
c. Ha/Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

PHANTOM III. CHASSIS.

REAR SPRINGS - SEC: 7030.

REVISED TOP PLATE FOR RUBBER MOUNTED SPRINGS.

Please receive herewith three Blue Prints of each of the following parts, which have been detailed in accordance with memo' BY3/G.20.3.36, and Expl:report per memo Ha/Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 13/KW.19.3.36. For this type of Top Plate, the Front End of Spring and Spring Plate lubrication will be the same as issued by our memo' BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /HEB {H. Biraben} 3/M.11.2.36, and BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /HEB {H. Biraben} 8/M.14.2.36, but the Rear End of Spring, Shackle and Dumb Iron will be as Production Chassis, that is, not Rubber Mounted.-

F.88731 Top Plate (Rear Spring). 2 off.
F.88732 Sleeve for Rubber Bush. 2 "

Will you please order 6 of above Top Plates from Spring Makers', and produce Sleeves to suit.

The above instructions complete this experiment.

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /HEB. {H. Biraben} [Signature]
  
  
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).


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