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).
Requesting the reproduction of modified Vulture type bronze and steel cones for the Phantom gearbox.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\1\ scan0295 | |
| Date | 8th January 1936 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X328 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}10/KW.8.1.36. We should like to reproduce the Vulture type of bronze and steel cones with modifications to the angle, for the Phantom gearbox. Will you please have made for experimental purposes two units to scheme Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}40. This confirms our verbal instructions. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.W.H. | ||