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Listing weight-saving components and noting a delay in the car's completion.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 82\2\  scan0064
Date  8th June 1934
  
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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 18/KW.8.6.34.

With regard to weight saving, there will
be the following items :-

(1) Magnesium dashboard.
(2) Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine) steering.
(3) Aluminium cylinder head.
(4) Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine) gearbox.

It will be seen from these notes that this
car cannot be completed for some little time, though
it will be built up with as many parts as are available
in order to get the body mounted.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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