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).
Suggesting to test new, perpetually tensioned Phantom III snow chains on a Bentley to avoid modifying the jack pad position.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 128\3\ scan0166 | |
| Date | 11th March 1937 | |
| 1109 To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Copy to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} [crossed out] BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} [crossed out] HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} [crossed out] Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} [crossed out] ----------------- E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/MN.11.3.37. ----------------- Re Bentley Snow Chains. ----------------- From our E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/MN.10.3.37 you will see that we have been asked to instruct that the Bentley rear jack pad be moved back in order to clear the old standard Parsons chain, which is always loose and flies out from the tyre. We have seen the new special Phantom III Parsons chain which is kept perpetually tensioned, and it has occurred to us that it might be distinctly advantageous to use such a chain on the Bentley as no one liked the old complete Parsons chain. Furthermore, it might be that the present 1½" of clearance between the tyre and the jack pad would be ample for this new chain which is always taut. We suggest, therefore, that you might like to obtain a set of these new type of chains for the Bentley and to try them on the rear wheels so as to ascertain whether they could be used with safety with the rear jack pad in its present position. To avoid a change in the jack pad position would be of considerable advantage to the Works. [Handwritten signature: Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}] | ||