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).
Requesting the preparation of various parts for a WXA.4 Sg's Wraith, including a new exhaust system.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 109\5\ scan0091 | |
| Date | 1st November 1938 | |
| 664 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}9/JH.1.11.38. WXA.4. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}'s. Wraith. Further to our previous memo. asking for a cam wheel to be prepared for the car. (1) Will you please have a new exhaust system made up the same as on 25.G.6. and Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}'s Wraith. This constitutes a 12 S.W.G. mild steel straight through down take pipe, centre silencer with 3 way tuning schmes with middle shell, end pieces and centre baffle in stay-brite, the perforated tubes in heat resisting steel and a 1.75" dia. tail pipe. Silencer suspension to be brought up to present production specification. (2) The rear engine mounting to be made as present standard. (3) The clutch linkage to be fitted to GOD.798. (4) Special washers to prevent oil from draining down the valve stems to be fitted. Will you please have these parts prepared for fitting when next the car arrives at the Works. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} | ||