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).
Production difficulties with duralumin brake carrier plates for a Phantom car's 10,000-mile test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\2\ scan0180 | |
| Date | 10th October 1925 | |
| +8420 To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c.c. to CJ. BJ. c.c. to RG.{Mr Rowledge} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} c.c. to DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c.c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG10.10.25. 'PHANTOM' CAR FOR 10,000 MILES TEST. X8420a There has been difficulty in producing one of the sheet-metal brake carrier plates when made in duralumin. These plates are promised from the makers on Monday the 12th. inst. In the meantime we are carrying out as much work as possible on this car. It is intended however to send the car away from Derby as soon as the lightened plates are fitted. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||