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 and comparing weight analysis data for various Phantom III models.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\4\ scan0053 | |
Date | 3rd April 1936 | |
S/W. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X358 Phantom III Weights. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}24/KW3.4.36. Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}5/KW7.4.36. F.{Mr Friese} DODD. What information can we supply? Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} We have noted with interest the weight analysis of 36-EX. We should like to have a similar analysis of other P.III's with similar coachwork, for instance, 34-EX is not unlike it. We took the weight of 35-EX, which of course has a different kind of body and found it to be 2 tons 11 cwts as in use by us for demonstration. This weight compared almost exactly with that of 56-UK, a P.II with an exactly similar body used by the Writer, its total weight in trim for the road being 2 tons 11 cwts 17 lbs. If you have similar records of the original P.III with an Enclosed Limousine body, made in the first instance for a P.II and converted, we should like to have data of that car also. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} dul | ||