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).
Urgent testing of a La Salle steering unit for the Spectre model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5a\4\ 04-page114 | |
| Date | 7th September 1934 | |
| -2- Ha/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/KW.7.9.34. In order to get the La{L. A. Archer} Salle steering tested out, the results being urgently required for the SpectreCodename for Phantom III, we will give you our Test Bed Unit No. C.10 to be fitted in the car while the lead bronze bearing modification etc. are being carried our. we understand that you are going to fit the big ends on 21-G-IV's unit with .002 clearance, and we will have it on the test bed to prove these out before fitting the unit in the car. Ha/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}: | ||