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 balancing of five 13.5' Phantom III clutch plates and the fitting of an omitted oil thrower.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\3\ scan0342 | |
| Date | 2nd August 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}11/JH.2.8.37. 312 PHANTOM III CLUTCH. There are in the Garage Stores 5 13.5" clutch plates just received from Borg & Beck. These plates are completed excepting that they are not balanced. Will you please have the 5 of them balanced ready for use as quickly as possible. Also please fit oil thrower which had been omitted by production before the despatch of the hubs to Borg & Beck. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} | ||