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).
The dispatch of a Phantom Trials Landaulet for the fitting and testing of hydraulic shock-absorbers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67a\1\ scan0204 | |
| Date | 19th May 1926 | |
| X8410 PN{Mr Northey}7/DN19.5.26. TO Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}, EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Hm.{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} Bk.{A. Birkett - Commercial Manager} FROM PN{Mr Northey} I am sending to you our Phantom Trials Landaulet - No. 22-MC - Hooper body. This car will arrive before the holidays in order that immediately afterwards Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} can fit the front with the hydraulic shock-absorbers, and the whole question of the improvement in the springing of the car (referred to in my previous memo) can be gone into. I will make an early opportunity of coming to the Works in order to test this car so fitted. P.N. wm | ||