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).
Incident where the front hydraulic jacks on a Phantom III hit the road.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\2\ scan0203 | |
| Date | 1st August 1937 | |
| 300a CHATEAUROUX. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux}/3/JAB.I.8.37. To. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 32-EX. PHANTOM III. Front Hydraulic Jacks Fouling Road. Replying to your memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/I9/R.28.7.37, we would say that while the conditions under which the jacks hit the road were abnormal and exceptionally severe even for France, the truth would be very likely to occur under main road conditions in such countries as Yugo-Slavia, Roumania, or Greece. I was driving at the time and was caught completely unawares, as the cassis in question was at an open cross road and in the headlamps, the gulley was hidden in the shadow of the crown of the road which ran across; We would repeat that the trouble would not happen with the jacks attached to the lower triangle levers as on 35-EX. nor with the jacks mounted behind the suspension levers as on Wraith. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} | ||