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).
Safety memo regarding exhaust gas blowback in No. 5 Test Bed (Spectre) and a request for a milk can.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0061 | |
Date | 13th March 1935 | |
x3269 To EJJ/JV. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}4/KW.13.3.35. Safety First. No. 5 Test Bed (SpectreCodename for Phantom III). There is a considerable amount of gas blowing back into the test house from the exhaust box on the outside wall. Will you please arrange to have the exhaust carried through a pipe, well clear of the petrol tanks. Will you please order immediately a 1-gallon milk can for this Test House. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/L.H.Swindall. | ||