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 urgent fabrication of a petrol tank for a Continental Phantom III.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 95\4\ scan0221 | |
| Date | 28th November 1936 | |
| 351. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}2/JH.28.11.36. The Continental Phantom III. Will you please have a Phantom III petrol tank to LeC. 4981 made for 38-EX. This was instructed originally on 13.3.36. but was never made, The car is now at Park Wards waiting for the tank to enable the side filler to be fitted on the body. This is extremely urgent. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} | ||