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).
Instruction to chromium plate half a set of special bottom tappets for a 15,000 miles test on a Phantom III No.14 Unit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 10\3\ 03-page069 | |
| Date | 7th September 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} 657 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}1/AP.7.9.37 Phantom III. No.14 Unit With reference to the special bottom tappets to LeC.5067 which you are endeavouring to produce for the 15,000 miles test of the above unit will you please instruct for half of the set to have a chromium plated face. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||