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).
Request to manufacture a lightened Bentley petrol tank with modified baffle plates for testing purposes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\5\ scan0241 | |
| Date | 11th March 1937 | |
| 251. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}11/AP.11.3.37. Will you please arrange to have made one Bentley lightened petrol tank to LOP.2711 with the exception of the baffle plates. These are to be all made of 24.SWG. tinned steel. The left baffle to be as standard. The centre plate to the attached sketch but with no rivets. The right hand to the attached sketch but fixed with rivets. This is for test on the bump chassis and does not require a filler cap. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} | ||