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).
The cost reduction and production of a Bentley Air Silencer.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\4\ scan0162 | |
| Date | 30th March 1936 | |
| For c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} By Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x208 E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}1/HP.30.3.36. re Bentley/Air Silencer. Referring to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}T.30.3.36, we have today issued instructions to BY embodying the suggestions for reducing the cost of the Bentley air silencer, in accordance with Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}14/KW.27.3.36. It should be possible, therefore, for this to be adopted on production immediately it is cleared by the 10,000 miles test on B-56-BN.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||