Follow-up memo regarding chassis B. 6.BN, mentioning the firm Aubert & Duval as pioneers in cylinder and crankshaft nitruration.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 146\3\ scan0192 | |
| Date | 29th February 1936 | |
| To Bentley Motors Ltd. Derby ............Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to ............Hd. {Mr Hayward / Mr Huddy} 1020 Levallois Sr/VAI4/GM.30.II.36 re: CHASSIS B. 6.BN {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} ------------------- We shall be glad if you will kindly let us have a reply to our Sr/VA5/GM.24.II.36, as soon as possible, because the owner is now pressing us for delivery of his car and there is a considerable amount of work to do. We should mention that from information which we have obtained, that Messrs. Aubert & Duval, the firm mentioned in our memo, are supposed to be the pioneers of nitruration of cylinders and crankshafts etc... Handwritten: Miss Reece - Our memo has been despatched, has it not? OK. sent last night [Signatures] | ||
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).