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 to build an experimental air silencer for a 7.B.V. Bentley III.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 152\3\ scan0252 | |
| Date | 16th May 1938 | |
| 1297. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux}10/JH.16.5.38. 7.B.V. Bentley III. Air Silencer. Will you please build up an experimental air silencer to ECD.530. Details from this scheme will not be available for some while, we should therefore like you if possible to make the silencer from the arrangement drawing to suit this car, so that we can confirm the scheme for future engines as soon as possible. One ring of ten .500" holes is required at the inner end of each centre tube, We will obtain suitable filter elements from Burges. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} | ||