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 modify a Bentley Bumper Chassis to reproduce a stub-axle failure for testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 119\2\ scan0403 | |
| Date | 24th May 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X104 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.6/KW. 24.5.35. Bentley Bumper Chassis. We want to run the above chassis in order to reproduce a stub axle failure similar to that experienced on 5-B-IV in France. Will you therefore please fit a pair of standard front road springs, and one new stub axle to this chassis. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} | ||