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 complete a modified Spectre starter motor for testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 62\1\ scan0290 | |
| Date | 17th January 1935 | |
| 86134 RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.4/MA.17.1.35. MODIFIED SPECTRECodename for Phantom III STARTER MOTOR. Further to our Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.2/MA.2.1.35., will you please arrange to complete a spectreCodename for Phantom III starter motor for us with experimental pieces EL.57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, now made, being incorporated. The field should be wound with 4½ turns of .150" x 200" copper bar (quantity of which is available) and the armature EL62 cut and wound as per drg.D.74035. A sufficient quantity of armature bar D73707 is also available. We should be glad if this motor could now be completed as quickly as possible for test. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||