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).
Urgent instruction to fit a Bentley instrument patch to chassis 3.B.IV for testing with new lightened instruments.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 62\2\ scan0255 | |
| Date | 25th January 1934 | |
| 86135 RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.3/MA.25.1.34. BENTLEY INSTRUMENT PATCH TO R.R.Sch.552. Will you please have this made up as quickly as possible and fitted to chassis 3.B.IV for test with the new lightened type instruments. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} is pressing for the standardisation of the instruments and the road test is holding the job up. The patch was instructed on the 17th instant. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||