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Photographs of a cracked aluminium damper casing for a Bentley III front shock after a test run.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 99\3\  scan0130
Date  13th March 1939 guessed
  
HH2
To By. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /LG.
c. Dsv.
c. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
c. Fmr/AWM.
HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /LG.1/BA.1313.39.
Bentley III Front Shock Dampers.
We attach hereto for reference photographs of the cracked aluminium damper casing EX.S.487, this piece has completed 1 hour 45 mins. running on the bumper chassis.
HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /LG.
  
  
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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