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The revised quarter-scale layout (sch. 3344) and skeleton specification for the Peregrine 2 chassis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 1\8\  B001_X100 Engine Chassis-page004
Date  19th September 1931
  
X4027

BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} FROM DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
DA {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} 1/M19.9.31.

C. to SG. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} WOR. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
PEREGRINE(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine) 2.

We send herewith N. sch. 3344. shewing a quarter scale layout of Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine) 2. revised.

This gives full details of the frame, springs, transmission angle, and all features which are not subject to the .80 ratio.

This will enable you to go ahead with the frame, springs, etc, and to produce Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine) 2. designs in parallel with those you receive for J.3.

We also include a skeleton specification of the chassis.

DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design}

PS. for EY.
Actually R. {Sir Henry Royce} handed the original to WOR. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} in London yesterday. Will you please send SG. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} a print, and distribute the usual prints, returning the original to us.
  
  
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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