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).
Confidential memo requesting recommendations for body and springing on Bentley V chassis for the Paris and Earls Court Motor Shows.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154a\4\ scan0118 | |
| Date | 24th June 1939 | |
| CONFIDENTIAL. 1306 [Handwritten] Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} [Struck through] [Handwritten] AFM {Anthony F. Martindale} Please write necessary note [Initialed] Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /BP3/MW.24.6.39 Re: Bentley V Chassis for Paris and Earls Court Motor Show. We are now receiving erection instructions for [word 'for' is struck through] the Bentley Show cars, and we are informed that B.2.AW and B.4.AW are allotted to Paris, and are to be fitted with CornicheBentley streamlineSTREAMLINEd precursor to R Type Continental, never produced Bodies. Chassis Nos. B.6.AW and B.8.AW are London Trials Cars, and are to be fitted with CornicheBentley streamlineSTREAMLINEd precursor to R Type Continental, never produced Bodies. We are instructed to communicate with you for particulars of the body and the springing. Would you please, therefore, let us have your recommendations for the springing in order that we may issue erection instructions to the Works for these chassis to be built. [Signature] D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /BP | ||