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).
Request for a plain bonnet with flip-flap shutters to be fitted to a Bentley, requiring a new design for a smaller front bonnet shutter.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\1\ scan0066 | |
| Date | 6th December 1935 | |
| To E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} X200a 4 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}13/KW.6.12.35. Bentley Plain Bonnet. We are asking for a plain bonnet with flip-flap shutters to be fitted to 6-B-IV. This we understand calls for a design to suit a smaller front bonnet shutter. Will you please look into this for us. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.Dodd. | ||