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 for a pair of hardened Phantom II Automatic Tappet Rocker Shafts to be manufactured.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 17\6\ Scan186 | |
| Date | 27th March 1934 | |
| X2060 RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.2/KW. 27.3.34. Will you please have a pair of hardened P.II Automatic Tappet Rocker Shafts made in S/ZN case hardened, otherwise to DRWG. E.84407. These are required to be tried with the eccentrics which you are at present remetalling and should therefore be ground to give the same diametral clearance (.001") as the present shafts. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/C.S.Steadman. | ||