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).
Progress and road testing of an experimental Bentley supercharger.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 140\1\ scan0175 | |
| Date | 8th May 1935 | |
| To Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} L.W.9 Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/MJ.8.5.35. Re. Bentley Supercharger. Replying to Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}11/E.29.4.35. We have now run the supercharger on the road. All the work so far done on the Bentley supercharger has been with the object of providing design with information to incorporate a blower on the Bentley. As fitted up on 3-B-1V at present it is simply a piece of experimental apparatus. In view of this fact, while it is available to be tried as a matter of interest, it is far from ready for any sort of extended test. It is possible that after a few weeks' further development it may give results which we consider to be representative for a centrifugal blower on the Bentley, but having reached this stage a proper design would still have to be completed and manufactured before being submitted as something that could be sold. We have been urging the large bore unit as being something within easy reach. We have had a power curve off this and it will be on the road next week. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||