Progress report on engine vibrations, a new steering wheel, engine oil tests, and a streamline car from France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 161a\2\ scan0304 | |
| Date | 18th November 1938 guessed | |
| -2- Engine Vibrations. Increased inertia cam wheel has been fitted, but the rubber driving blocks of reduced durometer hardness did not prove satisfactory on test and were not fitted to production cars. This matter is now cleared on production. Further tests in hand of rubber blocks of original hardness but twice diameter. Bentley II. Thinner Steering Wheel. A design for a wheel suitable for Bentley and Wraith has been completed in accordance with FB.4293. The matter is in the hands of Wilmot Breedon who have quoted £300 for dies. Handwritten: Go ahead with the dies. wheel for Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 's car. Thin Engine Oil. GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} has arranged with four Owners to try Arctic oil. This matter will not be raised again until reports from these Owners are received. StreamlineExperimental Streamline Bentley B.23.A.E car from France. This was tried by Sales and Works officials and reports circulated. | ||
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).