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).
Modification to the Bentley exhaust system and its implications for repair service and manufacturing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\3\ scan0050 | |
| Date | 28th February 1934 | |
| X223 E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} By Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Sft{Mr Swift}3/BH.28.2.34. BENTLEY EXHAUST SYSTEM - Your Memo' E/Lid{A. J. Lidsey}1/HP.27.2.34. Following our discussion yesterday morning on this subject, I immediately put in hand the Exhaust System deleting, as suggested, the two pairs of Flanges. This Exhaust System is now on the Chassis, and we shall be glad if E, By, and yourself, will come into the Erecting Bay, and look at this job. I would like to bring forward the following point for consideration, that is, what affect will this have on repair service. If either the front or rear portions of the Silencer get damaged, it means with the new scheme, supplying a complete new Silencer, or alternatively there would have to be a lot of unwelding, and rewelding. I think it would be better if we decided to make the Silencer in two halves, making the jointing position between the front,and the rear halves at the flanged jointing immediately in front of the cut-put. This would give us wonderful assistance in the making of these Silencers, in as much as this second suggestion would delete the flange immediately behind the first expansion box. This is the one that give us our greatest difficulty to get right. Will you please let me know when you are ready to look at the Chassis in the Erecting Bay. Sft.{Mr Swift} file | ||