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Measurement data for a Bentley frame, complete with dashboard and without the 2nd crossmember.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 86\4\  scan0205
Date  10th August 1935
  
X227 10/8/35

Bentley Frame complete with Dashboard and without 2nd Crossmember.

1st Point - 1st Crossmember } 27.75"
2nd " Centre of 1st and 3rd points) } 27.75"
3rd " C/L of dashboard } 21.0"
4th " 2nd Body Bracket } 27.0"
5th " 3rd " " } 26.0"
6th " 4th " " } 33.0"
7th " Rear cross member

Front centres at 25.75": rear centres at 43.25".

[TABLE]
Points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
400 | 10°-50'R | 7°-20'R | 4°-0'R | 2°-20'R | 0-40R | 0-20'L | 2°-0'L
600 | 14-50 | 10-40 | 6-20 | 4-20 | 2 - 0 | 0-30 | 1-40L
800 | 19-0 | 13-50 | 8-40 | 6-0 | 3 - 0 | 1-10 | 1-30L
[/TABLE]

Frame balanced about centre of front cross member.
N.S.R. shackle anchored, and O.S.R. supported on trestle.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /K.F.Scholes.
  
  
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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