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).
Letter to Geoffrey Smith regarding the availability and testing of the new Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\2\ scan0111 | |
| Date | 14th July 1939 | |
| 26/g.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}5/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 14th July, 1939. Geoffrey Smith, Esq., Messrs. Iliffe & Sons Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, LONDON. S.E.1. Dear Mr. Geoffrey Smith, Thank you for your letter of July 13th. I will at once contact with the Administration and see what I can fix up. You will appreciate that one of the difficulties is that we have completed our tests on the new Bentley, as it will go to Olympia, some time ago, and the cars we are now running on the Continent have other experimental developments on them. For this reason there might be some objection and I shall have to tell Cowen exactly what we have available. I presume that if I let you know definitely one way or the other by the end of July, this would be early enough for you. The Hotel du Cap is at d'Antibes. Yours sincerely, | ||