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 design of louvered bonnets for the New Phantom to prevent overheating.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 66\3\ scan0100 | |
Date | 18th August 1925 | |
To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. BJ2/H18.8.25.. New PhantomCodename for PHANTOM I. Louvred Bonnets. With reference to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG14.7.25, we shall be glad to hear whether you have received any further information with regard to the matter of new design for louvred bonnets, as we are anxious to get this matter settled as satisfactorily as possible for countries abroad as soon as we can, and so prevent the possibility of the New PhantomCodename for PHANTOM I obtaining a bad name for overheating in the same way as the Silver Ghosts have suffered in this respect. B.J. [Handwritten Note] +S260 B.J. We have received a new design of bonnet from N.W. | ||