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).
The poundage of rear springs for the Phantom car and confirming a new springing method on specific models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67a\1\ scan0087 | |
| Date | 5th March 1926 | |
| To BY/HEB.{H. Biraben} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X8410 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/EG5.3.26. PHANTOM SPRINGING. With reference to the present alteration in the method of springing the Phantom car. Would you please give us the poundage of the rear springs that you fit to cars having bodies of - 6, 9 and 12 cwts, the only additional specification being that they would carry 4 passengers and 1 cwt. of luggage. We should also like to know whether we are correct in saying that 117-MC. and 118-MC have recently been sprung by the new method. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||