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).
The order of stabilising bumper bars and the required modified starting handles for Bentley cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 118\2\ scan0164 | |
| Date | 19th December 1934 | |
| 44522 To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}8/KW.19.12.34. Stabilising Bumper Bars. We have ordered 6 Stabilising Bumper Bars from Messrs. Wilmot-Breeden for fitting to complaint Bentley cars. As it is necessary to have a modified starting handle when a Bumper Bar is fitted, will you please instruct 6 modified starting handles. The chassis to which the above Bumper Bars will be fitted will not have the dropped front cross member, so that the starting handle layout should be to N.Sch.4284 with crank to EB.2111. This is very urgent. It should be noted that Sales Dept. may be ordering a number of Bumper Bars very shortly, and they will also require modified starting handles. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J.Hardy. | ||