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).
Schemes for a pressed steel Bentley dashboard, including silent bloc mounting and alterations.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168b\1\ img135 | |
| Date | 19th December 1938 | |
| BF/MS [Struck through] C.Car [Struck through] G.Design C. Ex/RO.{C. C. Rose - Export Manager} 6153 DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}12/G.19.12.38. BENTLEY B. DASHBOARD. Please receive herewith the following schemes :- F.CD.1093 Silent bloc Mounting for Pressed Steel Dashboard. F.CD.1101 Pressed Steel Dashboard. The above schemes shew the pressed steel dashboard altered to suit the wider scuttle. This gives an increased frontal area, and makes it possible to fit a Ferranti Wireless set, and a large heater on the driver's side of the dashboard. Particulars of stiffening grooves will follow shortly. We also show how to mount the dashboard on to the frame by Silent blocs. To make this mounting rigid, we have provided a stiffener from the dashboard mountings to the body bottom side, which we are asking the coachbuilders to supply. Please instruct experimentally as soon as possible, as we wish to instruct this dashboard for 50 sets. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||