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).
Bentley Rear Axle Arrangement Drawing, confirming it is pre-war and sending prints as the originals are in 'Cold Storage'.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\4\ scan0411 | |
| Date | 19th January 1944 | |
| 202. To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/Bl. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/Bl.1/JW-.19.1.44. The Bentley Rear Axle Arrangement Drawing, GB.S19, quoted in HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/Bl.3/JW.12.1.44., is definitely the pre-war, fully floating, type as suggested in Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}9/h.14.1.44. We are sending to Austin's a print of only the two sectioned views traced from this Drawing, since the original tracings are apparently in 'Cold Storage'. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/Bl. W. Bell | ||