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).
Agreeing to a new side spare wheel carrier for Bentley, pending satisfactory tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\3\ scan0213 | |
| Date | 12th January 1937 | |
| 1013 S/W. Copy to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} " " RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} " " HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} " " By/BD.{Mr Berend} Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}18/MK.12.1.37. Handwritten: Kes Can for been to this? Side Spare Wheel - Bentley. Your Ref: E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/MN.9.1.37. We agree that the fact of the new side wheel carrier being 3" farther forward than the side carrier provided in the past is going to be very useful insofar as it will permit of wider front doors, and as it is both simpler and cheaper to produce we think it would be a good plan to adopt it as the standard, provided the tests you have asked the Experimental Department to carry out are satisfactory. We should, of course, like to have some notice of when it is proposed to introduce it on production if the tests justify this. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||