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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).
Request to prepare designs for components of an Experimental Production Chassis for a Bentley 5.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 97\2\  scan0016
Date  27th January 1939
  
H2O
DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} [struck through]
c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux}
BY/NS.{Norman Scott}10/G.27.1.39.

BENTLEY 5.

Would you kindly prepare designs for the following to enable us to instruct material for the Experimental Production Chassis :-

Hand Mixture Control.
Exhaust System to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}'s latest specification.
Reverse light switch on the change gear gate.

The following will also be required, but will depend upon the type of gear box chosen.-

Undersheet.
Damper Governor control.

[Handwritten signature] IMW{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} hols 7th
[Stamped] 10 BY/NS.{Norman Scott}
  
  


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