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).
Request to fit high compression pistons to car 6.B.4 for a publicity run rehearsal on the Paulin Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\3\ scan0027 | |
| Date | 2nd January 1938 | |
| 1379 HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/R.2.1.38. PUBLICITY RUN ON PAULIN BENTLEY. Confirming our telephone conversation, will you please put some high compression pistons in 6.B.4 as soon as possible in order to enable us to make a rehearsal of a Press run which has to be carried out on the Paulin Bentley, almost immediately. A special order number has been taken out for this job - 51920. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||