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).
Disposal plan for four experimental cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 123\4\ scan0335 | |
| Date | 28th August 1937 | |
| To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. C. c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} 10842 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/AP.28.8.37 EXPERIMENTAL CARS. We are disposing of the following experimental cars:- 5.B.1V. This is a boxed-in frame so that the chassis will have to be scrapped. The body is quite sound but is not standard size as it has rather more room in it than the average Bentley. It should be quite a saleable proposition. We should like to know whether we ought to send it down to London for sale. 18.G.1V. This is an old 20/25. chassis which has been fitted with a 25/30. unit. It has a limousine body. If it is not sold as a hybrid, it will cost a good deal of money to make it into a standard car. We have handed it over to the Repair Dept. forthwith. 29-EX. This is a Ph.II. 8 litre engine fitted in a J.III. frame. The body is, of course, suitable only for a J.III. frame which was never on Production. We sell such bodies for what they are worth to Sanderson & Hdmes. We should propose to do this in this case unless Sales feel they have any use for it. The chassis will be scrapped, any useful pieces being employed on experimental work. B.56.BN.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} This car has a very up-to-date drop head coupé body on it. We have conducted a series of tests to try and make the chassis a little less undesirable when this type of body is fitted to it, and these are now completed. The body will only deteriorate if we keep it, and we should like to hand it over for sale and fit to this chassis a standard Saloon body which has been used for testing the Citroen suspension parts. The frame to which the Citroen suspension parts were fitted is being scrapped. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||