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).
The decision to continue using the standard exhaust system for the Big Bore Bentley car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\3\ scan0116 | |
| Date | 9th December 1935 | |
| To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} x223 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}7/KW.9.12.35. Bentley Exhaust System. Will you please note that it is now intended to continue with the present standard Bentley exhaust system for the Big Bore Bentley car. Will you therefore instruct accordingly. The scheme to LeC.4825 for raising the tail pipe, however, should be brought into production immediately. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.H. Whyman. | ||