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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).
Accompanying blueprints for pressed steel wheels and a tyre balancing scheme for the Bentley 11.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 112\2\  scan0008
Date  5th January 1938
  
1040 . 856.
Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}
BY/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}11/G.5.1.38.

BENTLEY 50. WHEELS ON BENTLEY 11.

Herewith two blueprints of each of the following schemes :-

S.CD.233 Pressed Steel Wheel on Front Hub.
S.CD.310 Pressed Steel Wheel on Rear Hub.
S.CD.313 Scheme for Wheel and Tyre Balancing.

The above schemes show the proposed Dunlop wheel CD.S.1132, on Bentley 11 Front and Rear Axles, in accordance with your memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}11/MH.{M. Huckerby}9.12.37.

The suggested method of balancing the wheels has been agreed to by BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}

Ald{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}
BY/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}
  
  


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