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 for modifying car 35-EX by removing a Cadillac type damper and fitting a standard Phantom III spring drive.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\3\ scan0334 | |
| Date | 28th September 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}13/MH.{M. Huckerby}28.9.37. 300a 35-EX. (NO.16 UNIT.) The above car is being sent into the shop in order to have the Cadillac type of external damper removed and std Phantom III spring drive fitted. It will be necessary to drill standard holes in the nose of the crank and this in view of the nose being unhardened could be drilled with the crank in position, if the lower half and the oiler be removed. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||