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).
Requesting the dispatch of replacement parts for vehicle 6-B-IV to Paris.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\1\ scan0351 | |
| Date | 21th January 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} 200a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}4/JH,21.1.37. REPLACEMENTS FOR 6-B-IV. Will you please send the following parts out to G.W.Hancock 25, Rue Gide, Levallois, Paris :- A standard Bentley front axle complete, but excluding the brake drums, and including front axle controls and bigur fittings. Two Bentley aluminium/drums instructed in our memo. ref. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}2/AP.12.1.37. A standard front equalizer and brake ropes and the short rod between the equalizer and servo balance arm. One rear axle tube without the usual brake brackets, otherwise ready to go on the car (there are no brackets on the offside axle tube when Girling brackets are used). A set of front brake linings will be provided by Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} on Monday 25th, and these will have to be sent out after the axle. Will you please send to K/KC by passenger train the two rear brake drums having steel liners now lying on the rack near the axle bay. These will be put on B-56-BN{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} and the drums with Lepaz liners now on B-56-BN{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} will be sent to France for 6-B-IV, in accordance with our letter Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}6/AP.21.1.37. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/A.F.Martindale. | ||