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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).
Secret memo from 'Sg' to 'Hs' arranging to view the completed Spectre engine on the test bed in Derby.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 4\1\  01-page097
Date  2nd July 1934
  
SECRET.
To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
Copy to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} P.B.P.I.
re SpectreCodename for Phantom III.
Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}22/E2.7.34
V 4694
Very pleased indeed to see from your Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}11/MJ.29.6.34 that the engine is now completed and on the test bed.
I should very much like to see it when at Derby on Thursday.
Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
  
  


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