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).
Issues with Bentley cycle type wings and their spring steel stays.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\2\ scan0024 | |
| Date | 7th February 1934 | |
| 1369 To Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} c. to By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}S/KW.7.2.34. Cycle Type Wings - Bentley. --------------------- We have encountered a trouble with these wings owing to the use of stays in spring steel. These must be heat treated after being bent to their final shape. The present detail drawings show a straight stay to be bent at the Coachbuilders to suit the wing. We think it would be better to standardise a shape of wing so that the works can make and heat treat stays that will fit the wings. For our bump experiments we are shaping the stays to suit a pair of wings we have in existence. Will you therefore send us a drawing of wings you propose for customers, showing the curvature of the wing stays. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Grylls. | ||