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).
Secret memorandum regarding the urgent fitting of a temporary bonnet lock to the experimental Spectre cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\6\ scan0264 | |
| Date | 9th May 1935 | |
| X 305 SPECTRECodename for Phantom III (SECRET) E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/MN.9.5.35. To Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Copy to RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hx/Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} [text 'Hx/Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer}' is struck through] SpectreCodename for Phantom III Bonnet Locks. We send herewith LeC 4487 showing the Phantom lock applied to the SpectreCodename for Phantom III bonnet. We have drawn this out as a request has been received to fit some sort of lock on the bonnet of the experimental SpectreCodename for Phantom III cars immediately, but it may not represent our final design for a bonnet lock on the SpectreCodename for Phantom III chassis. is As the matter^urgent we are handing RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} a print with his copy of this memo. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Att: LeC.4487. | ||