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).
Proposing improvements to the Continental Phantom III model to address customer feedback and increase profit margins.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\6\ scan0176 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1937 | |
| -2- the roughness or noise experienced by the customers. We believe that the work we have been doing with 39-EX will help us in this respect. Briefly, the suggestion is that the Continental P.III should now become a means of getting improvements to hard driving customers quickly, so saving expenditure on free of charge work, and also incorporating various modifications that save cost, give a bigger margin of profit. With the present programme, it must be at least three years before we get the completely re-designed P.III Series 2 into production. We anticipate that this suggested Continental P.III could complete its 15,000 miles' test before Christmas and that, in view of the test on 32-EX, most of the material required to build the car could be ordered up forthwith. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||