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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).
Graph showing the average weights of production Bentley cars from 1934 to 1938.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 88\3\  scan0270
Date  22th September 1938
  
PRODUCTION BENTLEY CAR WEIGHTS
EACH FIGURE IS THE AVERAGE OF 40 CARS.

AXIS LABELS:
TOTAL WEIGHT CWTS.
BODY ONLY CWTS
YEAR

AXIS VALUES:
1934.
1935.
1936.
1937.
1938.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
7.
8.
9.
10.

GRAPH DATA & LABELS:
- Line 1 (solid): Starts as '3½ LITRE' with points '30-3-14', '32-2-20', then becomes '4¼ L WOOD+ALUM' with point '33-1-0'.
- Line 2 (solid): '4¼ LITRE STEEL' with points '34-0-7', '34-0-5', '34-2-0'.
- Line 3 (dashed): '3½ WOOD + ALUM' with points '7-2-14', '8-3-0'.
- Line 4 (dashed): '4¼ LITRE WOOD+ALUM' with points '9-0-0', '8-3-13'.
- Line 5 (dashed): '4¼ LITRE ALL STEEL' with points '9-2-0', '9-2-6', '10-1-0'.

ANNOTATIONS:
- Top Right Corner: 2, EXPL. / 8.B.5
- Right Side (from top to bottom):
- 36.8.0
- EXPL. / 8.B.5
- 35-1-18
- EXPL. / 8.B.5
- EXPL. / 7.B.5
- 34-2-0
- 33.3.7
- EXPL. / 7.B.5
- Bottom Right Corner: F.D. / 22.9.38
  
  


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