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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).
Requesting the fabrication of parts to test dual exhaust systems on a Bentley III test bed engine.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 99\1\  scan0165
Date  18th May 1938
  
423.

To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}8/JH.18.5.38.

BENTLEY III.

We are carrying out tests at the present time in conjunction with the proposed use of dual exhaust systems.

Will you please instruct a coppersmith to make two bends and fit flanges so that two systems can be run on a test bed engine.

No.30 Test House.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}
  
  


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