Inadequacy of Bentley headlamps and chasing the status of experimental replacements from Lucas.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61a\2\ scan0188 | |
| Date | 28th December 1933 | |
| 86116. S/W {Sales / Derby Works} To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} E.BY. Cx. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} O.Bn. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} RP.Mr. Bentley Headlamps. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 7/E28.12.33 Referring to Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.6/MA.5.12.33, as a period of three weeks has now elapsed, I should be glad to know what the position is in regard to the set of experimental lamps which Lucas were rushing through. I was using a Bentley car over the Christmas holiday and agree that the present lamps give an inadequate light. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} WST see me HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||
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).