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).
Car testing issues and final model development for the left-hand Phantom II.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 11\3\ 03-page149 | |
| Date | 1st July 1930 guessed | |
| -2- than when it was originally made. The worst features on the car were the resonant boom at 58 m.p.h. and also excessive movement of front wings and lamps. These will receive attention when the car returns. We expect to have the body fitted to the second car (28-EX) in about a week's time. One of the points we have to settle on this car is the appearance of the radiator and bonnet. This is the first complete car we have had fitted up with this scheme and a decision has to be made quickly, first - whether it is agreed that the alteration is desirable, and secondly - when it can be adopted. As this affects the right-hand car as well as the left-hand car we propose as soon as ever possible to arrange to take this car to London and W.T. so that a decision can be come to as regards this radiator and bonnet, even though there may still be some more work to be done on the chassis. We look upon the second car as being the final model car of the left-hand Phantom II. We expect it will be quite a month after the body is fitted before we shall be satisfied that the car is as good as we can make it. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||