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).
Request for assistance in sourcing French-style headlamps for two experimental Bentley V cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\2\ scan0221 | |
| Date | 24th November 1938 | |
| Secret. W/P - Sr... from Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} c. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. BY/RD. 404- Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}18/N.24.11.38. Re: Headlamps in Wings. We wish to build two experimental Bentley V.{VIENNA} cars with headlamps in the wings, after the style of the latest Voiture Profilée by Monsieur G.Paulin. No such lamps are available in England, and we would be very glad if you could obtain some illustrations or drawings of what French lamps are available, when we would make a choice and ask you to send us over two sets. Should you be unable to obtain any such illustrations, we suggest you had better pick out the best looking lamp available and send us a pair. We hope you wont mind our troubling you about this matter, and would like to thank yourself and EWP.{Mr Punt} for all the help you have given us in sending the photographs and drawings of your standard Vanvooren Bentley, which will be of great assistance to us. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||