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).
Parts and logistical arrangements for an S.B.V. Bentley 15,000 mile test car being sent to France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\5\ scan0100 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1939 | |
| Hook To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux}1/JH.3.3.39. S.B.V. Bentley. 15,000 mile test car. Will you please supply and build up two replacement rear axle shafts for S.B.V. complete with bearings, oil seals and bearing housings. Will you also please obtain the following to enable these parts to be taken to France on Imperial Airways to-morrow by Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} 1. Invoices. 2. Letter to hand to Imperial Airways to instruct cost of taking parts on plane to be charged to R.R. account. 3. Letter to hand to Hernu Peron at Le Bourget instructing them to deal with the customs formalities and charges on the parts. As Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} is leaving on the 8 a.m. train tomorrow morning we should like all these for 5.30 this evening. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} | ||