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Testing of lightened P.100 headlamps and a complaint about horns for the Bentley Chassis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 61a\2\  scan0293
Date  18th June 1934
  
WST 861161

To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Lightened Type P.100 Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 9/Z18.6.34
Copy to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Cx. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} DY. {F R Danby} E.Headlamps for Bentley Chassis.

I am in receipt of Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.5/MA.15.6.34 and have noted with interest what you say. I presume we shall be allowed to see a drawing of the new suggested PS100 lamps before they actually make one?

With regard to the question of lightening the existing P.100 lamp, I am glad to know that they have this matter in hand and that one will be sent to you for experimental tests on a Bentley chassis and another put on their shaking rig.

You might ascertain whether they have submitted their horns to the latter test because I have this morning seen a complaint from a Bentley owner, who has been travelling a few thousand miles in France, to the effect that the inside of his horn keeps fallingto bits.

Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
  
  
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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