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Request for wooden models of a Bensport cylinder head to conduct air flow tests.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 86\1\  scan0030
Date  21th October 1933
  
X2-19

To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Std.

BENSPORT(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley) CYLINDER HEAD - MODELS FOR AIR FLOW TESTS.

We wish to carry out some air flow tests on suggested experimental types of Bensport(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley) cylinder head, and should like for this purpose :-

(1) A model in wood of a cylinder head - one combustion chamber complete with inlet port and inlet guide, to LeC.3673 attached.

(2) Our present wooden model to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 1045, (Ex.11719) altered to model of standard Bensport(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley) head to EB.615.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /C. S. Steadman.
  
  
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