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).
Issue of exhaust fumes entering the car body from the Bentley exhaust system cut-out and proposing a redesign.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\3\ scan0033 | |
| Date | 16th October 1933 | |
| Y2-3 To E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}3/KT.16.10.33. BENTLEY EXHAUST SYSTEM - CUT-OUT. We find that the body is very quickly filled with exhaust fumes when the cut-out is open, and anticipate that we shall receive complaints of this before very long. It is not practical, with the cut-out in its present position, to fit an extension that will allow the exhaust fumes to be carried away to a point where they will not enter the body. We think that, if the cut-out were fitted on to the opposite side of the intermediate pipe and so designed that it had a short extension incorporated in it to carry the gases to a point say level with the chassis side member, it would prevent the fumes from entering the body. Will you please look into this and let us have a design on these lines. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||