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).
Approving the Bluemell's Spring Arm type steering wheel for the first 15 production 3 1/4 Litre Bentley cars and requesting a drawing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\3\ scan0181 | |
| Date | 11th May 1933 | |
| BY/HBB. c.Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c.Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/MS. X3861 BY/SS.{S. Smith}19/J.11.5.33. 3 1/4 Litre Bentley - Steering Wheel. will you please note that Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} has approved of the steering wheel as fitted to the third chassis for use on the first 15 production cars. It is of Bluemell's Spring Arm type having eleven finger grip grooves approximately .750 pitch in each quadrant. These grooves are about .250" deep formed on the inner surface of the ring, on the underside, and slope at about 45° to the plane of the rim. Will you please prepare a drawing and order 15 sets. We should correct this drawing to the Bluemell model as soon as one is available. BY/SS.{S. Smith} | ||