Complaints of water entering the front brake drums on Bentley cars and the fitting of new sets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\2\ scan0285 | |
| Date | 4th February 1935 | |
| [Handwritten top:] Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x206 [Typed:] Complaints of Water Entering the Front Brake Drums - Bentley. To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} E EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Hdv. Bn. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} Thanks for Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 2/KW.3.1.35. I am pleased to note the contents. I presume that you will have sets fitted to Bn {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} 's and Lp {Mr Lappin} 's cars and I think it would also be very useful if you could let us have two or three sets for fitting to London demonstration cars. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} [Handwritten vertical note:] Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} , Since we have undertaken the fitting of these S/W {Sales / Derby Works} to the Repair Dept, & in view of the inability of Repair Dept to tackle such work we cannot supply. R.H. [Handwritten note across text:] R.H. most noble effort Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Wks [Handwritten bottom note:] a Please say when we could let repair & London have half dozen sets respectively. Rm {William Robotham - 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).