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).
Requesting modifications for a 10,000-mile test on a Bentley B-10 unit with a narrow pin crankshaft.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\3\ scan0020 | |
| Date | 3rd October 1934 | |
| X4553 To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Mths.{Reg Matthews} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/KW.3.10.34. Next 10,000 miles Bentley. This car is going to run 10,000 miles with the narrow pin crankshaft. The unit is B-10. We wish to have the oil feed to the pistons. We have of course lead bronze bearings. We should like you to instruct the necessary modifications to get the oil feed, and let us see them before they are issued. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||