Excessive tyre noise on a Bentley Trials Coupe B-8-FB, requesting a change to more silent tyres.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 157\6\ scan0007 | |
| Date | 10th February 1936 | |
| S/W. {Sales / Derby Works} Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} C. to BLY. {B. W. Bleaney - Bentley Sales} GRY {Shadwell Grylls} Bentley Trials Coupe B-8-FB. Cx {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} 7/KWI0.2.36. See me In driving this car this last week-end I noticed that the tyre noise was very excessive, and quite spoiled the silence of the car. They are the standard IndiaProduction 20 HP. with 4-speed box and Front Wheel Brakes tyres, but it was quite the noisiest example of a Bentley so far as tyres go that I have yet been on. mileage 9500. You have suggested more silent tyres, i.e a change of pattern for the P.III and for the 20/25. Can you suggest a similar change of pattern for the Bentley? I do think we ought to make a big effort to get rid of a lot of this noise. Cx. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} xuel | ||
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).