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Dashboard layout and accessory arrangement for a Bentley 5.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 132\3\  scan0188
Date  17th December 1938
  
BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /NS {Norman Scott}
c. RM {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
c. Da {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /JD {J. Draper - Frames}
c. BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /RD
c. Da {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /Mc.S

420 H25
DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} 7/G.17.12.38.
KaRy(SD)

BENTLEY 5. DASHBOARD.

Please receive herewith the following scheme :-

F.CD.1106 Fittings on Dashboard(Engine Side).

The above scheme shews the arrangement of the accessories on the engine side of the dashboard, they have been arranged to allow room on the driver's side of the dashboard for a Ferranti Wireless Set and a large car heater. With this dashboard arrangement it is possible to have the air silencer with the elbow at the rear.

With the above scheme, PD.309 and PD.315 it is possible to detail the dashboard for 10.B.5.

Please instruct experimentally.

DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
  
  
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