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).
Instrument board layout for the Phantom II, questioning the starter button position and proposing the addition of a cubby hole.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 62\3\ scan0382 | |
| Date | 3rd August 1933 | |
| 86142. To:- [REDACTED] Copy to:- [REDACTED] Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. [REDACTED] PN.{Mr Northey}2/IH.3.8.33. Phantom 2 - Vibrator Control. Referring to your E.6/HP.25.7.33. you state on the second page that "it is understood that Sales are satisfied with the starter button position shown". I am not sure that this is the case. For instance, I think that everybody likes to find a small cubby hole with its door on the near side of the instrument board, this is most convenient for oddments, keys, etc. and the arrangement shown in your sketch does not provide for this. Is there no reason why the starter push fitting should not be arranged more or less as shown in the pencil sketch attached, the starter carburettor fitting either being raised in the way shown to act as a balance, or, if for mechanical reasons this is not feasible, it could remain where you have indicated it, but the point is that I think we should take the view that a cubby hole will be required. PH. Encl. | ||