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 an experimental exhaust system for the Bentley V Continental sports model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 99\1\ scan0177 | |
| Date | 2nd February 1939 | |
| 423. To HP. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}5/JH.2.2.39. Bentley V Exhaust System. We are contemplating further mods. to the Bentley exhaust system, with a view to developing a system with a minimum power loss for use on the Continental sports model. Will you please therefore instruct for an experimental system to be made to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}'s. verbal instructions and fit same to 10.B.V. chassis. It can afterwards be transferred to a completed car when required. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||