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).
Concerns over Bentley stub axles and the inability to fit replacements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\4\ scan0069 | |
| Date | 17th September 1935 | |
| To By/Cgh{W Clough}: x202 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/KW.17.9.35. Bentley Chassis - Stub Axles. Replying to By/Cgh.{W Clough}7/G.16.9.35. Your statements on stub axles are quite correct, but the point in question was that Paris have 5 or 6 of the original cars which have done a very large mileage, and the stub axles of which they are particularly anxious to change. To these cars they cannot fit the stub axles they have already received because they are the three studded type. We entirely share their apprehension, and should be glad if you would either send some three stud caps out to them to enable them to carry on, or urge the two studded type pivots. Several of their cars have already run further than the distance at which our axle pivot failed in France, and we are greatly concerned. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||