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 to place an official order for an experimental exhaust silencer for trial on Bentley cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 152\3\ scan0259 | |
| Date | 5th September 1938 | |
| 1297 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to G/JWH. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}10/JH.5.9.38. As the various experimental silencers are being made at our request for trial on Bentley III, and Bentley 50, cars, we consider that they should be paid for, providing the charges are reasonable. Will you please therefore send an official order to Burges Products Co. Ltd., Barwell, Leicester, for one exhaust silencer no.X.455 - Order No.52444. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||