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List confirming instructions received from Derby for seventeen different vehicle sections and components.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 178\3\  img224
Date  13th June 1922
  
ORIGINAL

FROM EA.
C. to SC. MOH-
C. to HY. {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} BS. {A J. Barnes - Assistant Manager} &

TO. BENEPULT, X X

DAL/M13.6.22.
X+S53.

We believe that Derby have received from us instructions for the following sections:

(1) Frame side members, dumb irons, spring brackets and shackles, crossmembers 1., 2., battery, 3., and front, step irons, wing stays, and body brackets.
(2) Bonnet (for Derby to set out.)
(3) Petrol tank and fittings, and filler height (Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine).)
(4) Battery and box (Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine).)
(5) Rear axle box and axle tubes, brake drums and hubs. (Modified shoes and brake count rebaits are outstanding. also modifications for Rudge-Whitworth wheels)(Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine).)
(6) Front axle, brakes, and wheel hubs (except for R-W. wheels.)
(7) Cross steering tube (Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine).)
(8) Head lamp brackets.
(9) Clutch.
(10) Prop: shaft and universal joints (Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine).)
(11) Steering column and box. (Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine).)
(12) Exhaust swan-neck (Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine).)
(13) Scuttle isolation.
(14) Two experimental bodies.
(15) Dummy chassis, bonnet, and radiator.
(16) Front springs and fittings.
(17) Rear springs and fittings.

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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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