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).
Proposed improvements and standardisation for the next series of 3 1/2-Litre Bentley cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\6\ 06-page154 | |
| Date | 26th April 1934 | |
| To Wcr. from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}E.H. C.Bn.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington}Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} 3 1/2-Litre Bentley. Referring to the further batch of 200 sets of material which I have agreed to your ordering straight away and to any improvements that we may be able to introduce on this new series, on this point I would suggest that you hold a meeting as quickly as possible with those concerned. As far as I am aware, the main points to consider are what items it is proposed to introduce on this series as the result of the 10,000 miles test on 4-B-IV which was recently concluded and what items should be held in abeyance pending completion of the next 10,000 miles test, details of which are set out in E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}7/BP.24.3.34. I should rather like to be present at the meeting on this subject and propose coming up to Derby next Tuesday. There is a point about the front axle on 4-B-IV which I cannot understand. There was a recent memo. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} in which he indicated that the new design of axle with different pivot lean had successfully passed the test but we were not proposing to standardise it but were going to test something quite different. I should be glad if Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} could tell us at our meeting why it was put on the car if we did not mean to standardise it. I feel very definitely that we ought to make a special effort to get controllable shock dampers on this next series, and in view of the fact that they have been passed for standardisation on both the 40/50 and the 20/25, it cannot, I feel, be a very big risk to assume that they are going to be cleared on the 10,000 miles test car. Another point which is of importance as we all know is rubber engine mounting. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||