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 fit a Burgess experimental silencer No. X.455 to a Bentley Car 7.B.V.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\5\ scan0315 | |
| Date | 7th September 1938 | |
| 1297 400a To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}14/JH.7.9.38. BENTLEY CAR 7.B.V. Will you please fit up to the above car one Burgess experimental silencer No.X.455. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||