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 the manufacture of one dozen lengthened petrol taps and unions for the noise insulation of Bentley Trials cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 138\1\ scan0131 | |
| Date | 11th March 1935 | |
| 4634 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}20/KW.11.3.35. Noise Insulation of the Bentley. We are arranging to get the Trials cars noise insulated at Park Wards on the same lines as the work we have done on 1-B-IV and Lp{Mr Lappin}'s car. The only parts we require for this job are a lengthened petrol tap and a lengthened union for the oil pipe. We have marked up the dimensions which are altered on the 2 attached blue prints. We should be obliged if you could make one dozen off each. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||