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).
Request to produce a Phantom III Continental bonnet using a thinner 14 S.W.G. aluminium.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\6\ scan0055 | |
| Date | 27th November 1936 | |
| 300b. J To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.9/JH.27.11.36. We wish to try a Ph.III bonnet (suitable for the Continental car) in a thinner gauge of aluminium. Will you therefore please instruct a standard type 15°30' Continental bonnet in 14 S.W.G. (.080) material. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. | ||