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 from R.R. Jackson of Brooklands inquiring about a training scheme and high compression pistons for a 1939 Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\5\ scan0039 | |
| Date | 19th May 1939 | |
| 261 CARS AND MOTOR CYCLES TUNED AND MAINTAINED FOR THE TRACK AND ROAD ALL CARS AND MOTOR CYCLES DRIVEN AND GARAGED AT CUSTOMER'S RISK. R.{Sir Henry Royce} R.{Sir Henry Royce} JACKSON, Brooklands Track, Weybridge, Surrey. Telephone— WEYBRIDGE 1247. Your Ref. Our Ref RRJ/MPH 19th May, 1939. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., D E R B Y. ATTENTION OF MR. W.A.ROBOTHAM. Dear Mr. Robotham, I have got a friend who has a boy who is leaving Charterhouse in a month or two's time. His age is seventeen years and my friend has asked me to find out particulars about any training scheme which your firm may have. I understand from your London branch that I can obtain full particulars of the scheme from you at Derby. Perhaps, therefore, you will be good enough to let me have full particulars which I will forward to my friend. There is a further matter I have been recommended by London to get in touch with you about, and that is some high compression pistons for a 1939 4 1/4 Bentley. I have got a customer who has got one, the compression ratio of which is now 6 1/3:1. He wants to raise the compression ratio as much as it is possible to do so using Cleveland Discol as the fuel. I should be extremely obliged if you would let me know if you can supply pistons to give a higher ratio [Handwritten notes]: [Top right]: File. [Top left margin, vertical]: S.T.S. we have a very limited quantity [Left margin, vertical]: # Any pistons available. | ||