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).
Fix for Bentley water pump failures by fitting a gauze cap to the pump inlet.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\1\ scan0101 | |
| Date | 31th May 1937 | |
| BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} 1269 STEADMAN c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} E/JNR.{Charles L. Jenner}4/HP.31.5.37. Wien Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/STD Failure of Bentley Water Pump. Ref. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.12/AP.25.5.37. We send you herewith LeC.5705 which is a scheme providing a gauze cap on the pump inlet and held in position by the rubber hose connection with the object of preventing loose solder from the radiator entering the water pump. This can also be fitted to the 25/30 which is the same size. We are not able to make a scheme similar to Phantom III which had a gauze fitted to the radiator outlet because the Bentley outlet pipe is made in aluminium and the gauze cannot be sweated thereto. LeC.5705 herewith. E/JNR.{Charles L. Jenner} | ||