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Giving instructions to fit and modify a gearbox for the 'Spectre II' vehicle.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 91\3\  scan0113
Date  3rd October 1935
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
+700a
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 15/KW.3.10.35.

Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) II.

Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} has decided to fit No. 4-H-S gearbox which was in Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) I to Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) II before it goes to France.

In addition to new shafts, will you please fit the box with ball bearings throughout to N.Sch.4405 except that the bearing at the back of the side shaft should be the original roller bearing.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
  
  
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).


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