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).
Requesting urgent testing of six Phantom III clutch plates to check up on Borg & Beck's work.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\3\ scan0347 | |
| Date | 11th August 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} 312 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}5/JH.11.8.37. re Phantom III Clutch. 6 plates to EX.27309 have this morning arrived in the stores, and are being sent to the Garage Stores in order to check up Borg & Beck's work, will you please have all 6 of these tested both for running out and balance and a report made out. This matter is urgent as several plates are already required in customers cars. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} | ||