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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 prepare a Phantom III clutch plate for high-speed bursting tests at the Ferodo works.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 93\3\  scan0361
Date  24th August 1937
  
To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}
312
Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}3/JH.24.8.37.

Phantom III Clutch.

Please prepare a production type centre plate G.84808 and rivet to one side only, a Thermoid facing (herewith).

Cut the facing in segments exactly as the standard clutch plate G.84810 no hub required.

This is for high speed bursting tests at the Ferodo works on Friday next 27th inst.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}
  
  


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