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).
Letter to Park Ward & Co. Ltd. detailing required modifications for a Streamline Bentley, chassis B-23-AE.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\1\ Scan024 | |
| Date | 14th November 1938 | |
| Copy for Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x 2 les LID{A. J. Lidsey} EvS/IH.141133. 14th November, 1938. Messrs. Park Ward & Co., Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, N.W. 10. Dear Sirs, re:- STREAMLINE BENTLEY - B-23-AE. The above car is still at Derby but will be returned to you in the course of a week or so, as soon as the chassis has been modernised. We would like to recall that the following matters have to be attended to by your goodselves when the car returns, because it was taken away in an incomplete condition:- (1) The helmets to the rear wings need trueing up, so as to be in line with the tyre, also, the width of the rear wings needs adjusting, so that their edges are parallel with the plane of the wheel. The face of the rear wing is to be covered with some sort of stone shield and we think that this should be of stainless steel. (2) The front wings need to have a mud flap fitted to them, to prevent mud being thrown on to the rear wings and we think this should be a leather flap weighted with lead at the bottom. (3) The front seats as supplied were merely temporary and they have to have the Latex removed and air bags fitted. - 1 - | ||