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 one rear expansion box for a Big Bore Bentley exhaust system.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\3\ scan0100 | |
| Date | 11th November 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X223 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}36/KW.11.11.35. Re Big Bore Bentley Exhaust System. Will you please build up one rear expansion box for Bentley exhaust system to sketch attached, Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}10, in the same gauge material as the present standard box. If it is possible to do this within the next day or two, we could give same to A.B.Roberts, to take back with him to France for fitment to B-56-BN{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} car which has a big bore unit. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.H.Whyman. | ||