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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).
Secret memo discussing the Bentley Body Project, including body styles, dies, and chassis compatibility.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 111\1\  scan0118
Date  14th July 1938
  
SECRET.

To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Bentley Body Project. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}10/E19738
Copy to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}Rs.{Sir Henry Royce's Secretary}

Thanks for BY.8/G.14.7.38. I think that we had best discuss this when I am next at Derby and I hope to have time either Thursday afternoon or Friday morning.

Dealing with Paragraph (b), the difference in height could, I think, be overcome but the difference in the front militates, as you say, against the possibility of B.50 dies being used for Wraith bodies, except that it is worth studying to see whether some other parts such as the back could be made to come in.

Dealing with Paragraph (c) it is difficult to know whether the 6-light or the 4-light is going to prove the most popular on B.50.

The 4-light body on the new print sent with your letter certainly looks more attractive than the former one but I should like to see what it would look like as a 6-light.

I will bring a Humber catalogue with me because they seem to have managed to get the two out of one fairly successfully.

Referring to B.50 body on a B.III chassis as per your memo., apart from not seeing why anybody should wish to do this, as you say, there is also surely the aspect that B.III's performance would be spoilt by so doing.

Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
  
  


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