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Requesting an experimental exhaust system for the Bentley V Continental sports model.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 99\1\  scan0177
Date  2nd February 1939
  
423.

To HP.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} 5/JH.2.2.39.

Bentley V Exhaust System.

We are contemplating further mods. to the Bentley exhaust system, with a view to developing a system with a minimum power loss for use on the Continental sports model.

Will you please therefore instruct for an experimental system to be made to Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} 's. verbal instructions and fit same to 10.B.V. chassis. It can afterwards be transferred to a completed car when required.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}
  
  
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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