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 failure of an aluminium bonnet fastener bracket on a Bentley and a request for its correction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 25\1\ Scan159 | |
| Date | 12th October 1933 | |
| To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} X40. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}7/KT.12.10.33. BENTLEY - BONNET FASTENERS. GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} reports as follows - "One of the aluminium brackets with the bridge piece, which the bonnet fasteners hook on to, broke away during this morning's run". We cannot understand quite why this piece has been made in aluminium; on our previous cars they were of steel, as also was the model lent to us by the Remax people. Will you please arrange for this to be corrected. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||