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).
Illustrated article from 'The Autocar' magazine detailing the chassis and independent front suspension of the Bentley Mark V.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\5\ scan0284 | |
| Date | 31th January 1941 | |
| -96 The Autocar, January 31st, 1941 To Improve Good Though the Existing Model Is, the Mark V Smoothness and Quietness and Comfort: A hind its features as a whole, and its new points of design in particular. Foremost among these, of course, is the adoption on the B5, or Mark V, as the new Bentley has been desig- This front view of the chassis gives a good idea of the lay-out of the independent springing, and shows the substantial member which takes the place of a conventional axle. READERS will recall an account in The Autocar of November 1st last of an improved type of 4¼-litre Bentley—a modified version that would have been put into production but for the intervention of the war. It may be marketed when the successful conclusion of present preoccupations allows its world-famous manufacturers to resume car output, with an even augmented background of practical experience in matters metallurgical. That account of the car dealt with one of the few examples of the latest type of chassis that were completed before the outbreak of war, and was confined largely to its road behaviour during a test run that members of the staff of this journal were privileged to make. The Autocar now possesses one of these rare chassis, and nearly 3,000 miles have been covered. Numerous requests have since been received for further details of this outstanding British machine. As would be expected, it repays the closest examination “beneath the surface,” and it is interesting to try to analyse some of the reasons that lie be- The main features of the open coil spring independent front suspension are seen in detail, also the anti-roll torsion bar. On this chassis view every outstanding feature and interesting detail can be studied, with the exception of the front suspension, which is shown separately. The rear suspension, it will be noted, is still by half-elliptic springs, leather-gaitered. MAX MILLAR The Autocar COPYRIGHT A 4 | ||