Request to fit and test a new carburetter float chamber vent scheme on a Spectre II car in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\3\ scan0103 | |
| Date | 19th September 1935 | |
| To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x300a (2) Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} 25/KW.19.9.35. Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) II. Will you please arrange to fit carburetter float chamber vent scheme LeC.4712 to the above car for 10,000 miles test in France. This scheme is very important because of the troubles experienced in France on Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) III with poor starting up of engine when hot. Please note remarks re plugging up of existing float chamber vents. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /G.H.Whyman. | ||
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).