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).
Modifications for Bentley's Car 2-B-IV, including replacing connecting rods and fitting new gudgeon pin buttons.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\2\ scan0042 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1934 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/KW.2.7.34. Bentley's Car - 2-B-IV. This car is shortly going to France, and before doing so we should like to fit steel connecting rods as the duralumin ones are likely to fail. At the same time we should like to take the opportunity of fitting more tapered gudgeon pin buttons, as instructed in Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}5/KW.2.7.34. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||