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 to manufacture a louvered bonnet for a 'Spectre' model for testing purposes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\6\ scan0266 | |
| Date | 12th August 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} <305> Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.16/KW.12.8.35. SpectreCodename for Phantom III Louvred Bonnet. We wish to carry out some tests on the louvring of the SpectreCodename for Phantom III bonnet, and Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} has agreed that we should have a louvred bonnet for this purpose, in addition to the one on 3-S-1. Will you therefore please have a louvred bonnet made as soon as possible for 1-S-1, similar in all respects to that fitted to 3-S-1. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||