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 six Ballast Resistances for the 'Spectre' project.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 163\6\ img288 | |
| Date | 20th February 1934 | |
| WST 86016. RMC c - Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. BY/RD6/W.20.2.34. "SPECTRECodename for Phantom III". BALLAST RESISTANCE.SEC.8150. Will you please put in hand 6 Ballast Resistances to our L.O.P. D.74201, all parts on which are standard with the exception of the Resistance wire D.74197. No doubt Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. will have a supply of wire from which this can be made. BY/RD. | ||