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).
Letter detailing chassis modifications for an Experimental Bentley four-door saloon to be built by Park Ward & Co.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\1\ scan0242 | |
| Date | 5th February 1934 | |
| x204 COPY for Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Evl/IH.5234. 5th February, 1934. Messrs. Park Ward & Co., Ltd., 475, High Road, Willesden, N.W. 10. Dear Sirs, re:- Experimental Four-door Saloon S.B.4 -------------------- We send you herewith Prints of EvS.117 and 118, giving you full particulars of the body, which we wish you to build for an Experimental Bentley. We also enclose a Print of EvS.116, shewing the revised position and shape of the battery cross member, which enables the rear seat squab to be moved back two inches. Also, we enclose a Print of N.Scheme 3929, shewing the modified petrol tank filler. The following are the chassis modifications causing it to differ from standard:- (1) Dropped front cross member and lamp brackets on the outside of the frame, permitting of wings similar to those which you have fitted recently to the Phantom II Experimental and Wide Framed 25 H.P's. (2) Side spare wheel carrier. (3) Modified battery cross member. (4) Outside petrol filler. We have yet to send you a drawing shewing the revised front -1- | ||