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).
Proposing a program of tests to check the mud slinging propensities of Bentley V cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\2\ scan0177 | |
| Date | 12th January 1941 | |
| To Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/EAG. from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Copy to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} 400 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/BT.{Capt. J. S. Burt - Engineer}12.1.41. MUD SLINGING - BENTLEY V CARS ----------------------------- We should be glad if you would submit a programme of tests you propose to carry out to check the mud slinging propensities of B.Vs.{J. Vickers} We feel that, apart from minor experiments which can be conducted on existing cars, you should ask Ward to make up a wing which incorporates all modifications of which you can think, and which has provision for guiding the mud under the car, at the rear end. It may even be necessary to increase the overhang of the edge of the wing relative to the wheel. It should be possible to get some data on this subject by examining the small cars we now have, some of which are quite good for cleanliness. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||