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).
Instruction to manufacture one more Big Bore Bentley air silencer, specifying the use of steel rivets instead of aluminium.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\4\ scan0144 | |
| Date | 11th November 1935 | |
| X208 Mr.Bowers/Mr.Smith. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}26/KW.11.11.35. Re Big Bore Bentley Air Silencers. Will you please make up one more air silencer to instructions contained in Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}15/KW. 6.11.35. as soon as possible. This silencer should have the brackets rivetted on with steel rivets instead of aluminium rivets. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.H.Whyman. | ||