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).
The use of mild steel instead of spring steel for Bentley Cycle Type wing stays.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\2\ scan0030 | |
| Date | 26th February 1934 | |
| 1369 To RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}) To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}) from Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} C.E. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}1/HP.26.2.34. Bentley Cycle Type Wings. Referring to N. Sch.3894, wing stays for Cycle Type Wings, the inner stays, bolted to the pivot are intended to be in spring steel. As the coachbuilders have to handle the outer stays and bend them to suit their wing shape, it appears that they will usually be in mild steel, and we therefore suggest that those which we make for bumping should also be in mild steel. Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||