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).
Requesting the lagging of a front silencer and the fabrication of a new stainless steel version for a 10,000-mile test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\2\ scan0077 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1934 | |
| X4553a To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}9/KW.2.7.34. 4-B-IV. 10,000 miles Test. Will you please arrange to lag the front silencer on the above car with 3/8" dia. asbestos cord. As the existing silencer shell is made of Mild Steel will you make up another front silencer in Stainless Steel so that same can be sent out to France to be fitted by G.W. Hancock. This silencer should also be lagged. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.H.Whyman. | ||