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Sending an obsolete drawing, sch 3523, showing the layout of Bensport with the overhead camshaft engine.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 179b\1\  img017
Date  20th May 1932
  
A. {Mr Adams} FROM EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork}

C. to S[REDACTED] HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BENSPORT(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley).

We send herewith D. {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} sch 3523. shewing the layout of Bensport(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley) with the overhead camshaft engine.

We realise this is now obsolete, but send you the original so that E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} and ourselves can have a print for reference, and the original filed.

DA {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork}
  
  
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).


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