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).
Letter from Short Brothers Ltd. to Lieut-Col. Darby thanking him for the loan of a Bentley car and providing feedback on the windscreen steaming up.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\1\ scan0162 | |
| Date | 16th February 1935 | |
| COPY. SHORT BROTHERS (Rochester & Bedford) LTD. Seaplane Works, ROCHESTER. 16th February, 1935. Lieut-Col. M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} O.{Mr Oldham} Darby O.B.E., Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Conduit Street, W.1. Dear Colonel Darby, I am so sorry I have not written to you before to thank you for the delightful experience you gave me last week-end when you loaned me the Bentley car. As one who drives many different makes of car in the course of a year and with a reputation of being a hard critic may I say that this Bentley car was the most perfect vehicle I have driven. There was just one snag I met with in the very cold weather experienced during the time I had the car. Practically no heat reaches the body from the engine and, unless I kept one window nearly wide open, causing the passengers to complain, the windscreen steamed badly. This trouble I have overcome in my own car by bringing air heated by the engine into the body where it impinges onto the inside of the windscreen. This I find ventilates and warms the body and keeps the screen clear. Again very many thanks for your kindness in which my wife joins. With best wishes, Yours sincerely, | ||