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).
The decision not to fit an overdrive box to a Long Phantom III car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\3\ scan0139 | |
| Date | 29th December 1936 | |
| Urgent. 360 S/W. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} re- Long Phantom III. Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}18/KW29.12.36. With regard to your telephone message to-day, it is not our wish that you should incorporate in this car the overdrive box. We want this car as a standard P.III except for its length, in order to make comparisons with our present London Trials Car. No doubt you will now be able to let us have this car much earlier than you had anticipated. Will you therefore please say when we can expect it after your exhaust experiments are completed. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} -hwb | ||