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).
Breaking axle tube on a Bentley and the potential involvement of Geoffrey Smith for publicity photos.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\6\ 06-page006 | |
| Date | 11th August 1933 | |
| S/W. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}....from C. CB/D11.8.33 Re: Bentley & Geoffrey Smith Thank you for your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/MJ.10.8.33 and I am sorry to note the axle tube on the Bentley has been breaking. I can quite understand that you do not want Geoffrey Smith on this car at the present time and I will advise him accordingly. Thanks for your offer to lend us the Open Car for a few days and I must consider this point. I was not looking at it from the point of view that I particularly wanted him to try the car, although I still think that a few amateurs' views would be valuable to us when the time is ripe to open ourselves out, as it were. But from the Geoffrey Smith point of view I was really looking at it from pure publicity later on in the obtaining of some good photographs of the car in the mountains. However, this is not by any means essential and there is plenty of time later on. C. | ||