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).
Optimal placement of road tools under the bonnet for Bentley and R-R cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 155\4\ scan0108 | |
| Date | 5th December 1933 | |
| S/W. -> HSL/id. c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}, c. " F.BY c. " Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} 1326 Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}3/KW5.12.33. BENTLEY ROAD TOOLS. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}7/KT21233. With regard to paragraph 3 of the above memo, we do not think there is very much in putting the tools on the exhaust side because they are then on the side of the car furthest removed from the middle of the road. We should naturally prefer that the tools are carried on the carburetter side if possible, particularly tools such as mallet, wheel key and jack handle, but we also are strongly of the opinion that all tools that are carried under the bonnet should be on one side of it so as to avoid the necessity of opening the bonnet both sides before such an operation as changing the wheel can be carried out. It does seem important, therefore, to try and get all the tools which must be carried under the bonnet on the induction side. These same remarks apply, so far as we are concerned, to both types of R-R cars. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} LID{A. J. Lidsey} | ||