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).
Request to modify the K.10 Test House by tilting a Bentley unit for Spectre engine development.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0004 | |
| Date | 9th January 1934 | |
| X 326 EJJ. From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}5/MA.9.1.34. K.10 TEST HOUSE. Will you please arrange for the Millwrights to tilt and fix the Bentley unit in the above test house. We would like the job put in hand immediately, so that while carrying on with our present development work with the Bentley the tackle can be prepared, and then the necessary changeover made. The engine will be inclined at 30° to the vertical (leaning over sideways, the exhaust ports pointing down), the crankshaft, coupling and drive; remaining in the same plain as they are at present. This modification is necessary for preliminary development work on the new SpectreCodename for Phantom III engine. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/C.T.Salt. | ||