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Opportunity to test a Van Vooren bodied Bentley before it is sent away from Derby.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 90\1\  Scan168
Date  5th October 1935
  
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
x263
E.1/HP.5.10.35.
re Van Vooren Body - Bentley.
I understand that the Van Vooren body Bentley car has been seen up here, and I should like to have an opportunity of trying it before it is sent away from Derby.
I missed trying the Bentley with the all metal body as this could not be spared.
E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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