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).
Instructions for making and fitting a 2.00' plain tail pipe for a Bentley III exhaust system.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\5\ scan0298 | |
| Date | 6th July 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} γ 423 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}3/MH.{M. Huckerby}6.7.38. BENTLEY III EXHAUST SYSTEM. Further to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}1/JH.27.6.38, will you please make up and fit to the above car, a 2.00" dia. plain tail pipe. The pipe should be shaped locally underneath the rear axle to have the same clearance as the rebound buffers. FCD.622 (when compressed). Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||