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).
Feedback and potential modifications for a Phantom III (32-EX) following a 15,000-mile test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\1\ scan0280 | |
| Date | 19th May 1936 | |
| X300a To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}E.By. [Struck through] C.Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer}Ir.Sr. [Struck through] 15,000 Miles Test on Production Phantom III. (32-EX) I was very interested and pleased to receive your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/KW.18.5.36 and am glad to note the praise which you are able to give to the car generally. We, as you know, are very pleased with 34-EX which Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} brought away from Derby on our last visit and we have had some very complimentary things said about it by people who have tried it. The petrol consumption of 10.8 and oil consumption of 1:1150, as given in the spparate report certainly seem very good. I have had in mind that we would have a Continental model P.III as we had a P.II but I have refrained from saying anything about it until I felt that you had broken the back of the experimental work on the standard car. I note that for Continental conditions the car is undergeared and I think it would be helpful if before my next visit a list of modifications from standard could be prepared, i.e. modifications for a Continental chassis. I see from the report that there is a bad smell of petrol in the back of the car when the tank is full and should be glad to know how we propose to get rid of this as it is some-thing which must be dealt with. We have suffered from it too long on some of our other cars. I suppose the real solution is the outside filler but I am not sure what the position is in regard to this for P.III. I have said before and agreed with what you say, namely, 'we ought to be no worse than if the La{L. A. Archer} Salle steering was fitted to the car' and I still do not understand why, if we have got the La{L. A. Archer} Salle, we cannot produce equally good results. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||