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Letter to Bentley Motors detailing required repairs and issues for a Chassis No. B.145-AE.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\3\ scan0040 | |
| Date | 10th July 1935 | |
| Copy for Mr. Hives. Africa House, Kingsway, W.C.2. 10th July, 1935. Messrs. Bentley Motors (1931) Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs: Bentley Chassis No. B.145-AE. As arranged with your Repair Department over the telephone yesterday, I will send this car to you to-morrow, the 11th inst. It has now done some twenty-eight thousand miles, and I should like to have any matters requiring attention dealt with. In addition to decarbonisation and valve grinding, the following are items which require attention:- 1. There is very definite roughness in the engine from about 3,800 r.p.m. upwards. This may presumably be merely slight lack of balance caused by carbon deposit or valve bounce. 2. Upon the two occasions that I have brought the car to your Works I have referred to what has always appeared to me to be abnormal back lash in the transmission, and this has not, of course, improved with wear and one gets the same very audible jar in take-up which would occur if one of the driving hub-caps was very inadequately tightened. 3. Brakes require relining and the servo adjusting. 4. Clutch is still rough. I had hoped that wear would improve this. 5. Cut-out constantly loosens and chatters. 6. Cellulose of plate at centre of steering-wheel has gone badly. Might this be renewed, please, and | ||