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).
Instructions to fit standard engine sideguards and shuttered bonnet side plates to a Continental Ph.III car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\6\ scan0157 | |
| Date | 24th May 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. 3000 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.7/AP.24.5.37 Continental Ph.III. Bonnet and Undershields. The above car is shortly coming into the Shop for a good deal of work and we want it fitted with standard engine sideguards and shuttered bonnet side plates instead of louvred ones. Will you therefore please instruct the necessary sideguards and bonnet side plates (the latter should be in .080" aluminium as is the case with the present bonnet.) Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. | ||