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).
Letter to Park Ward & Co. Ltd. regarding body modifications for a Short Wheelbase Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\2\ scan0058 | |
| Date | 10th December 1937 | |
| c. to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} c. to BY/RD. 2008 10th.December 1937. Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}17/N. Messrs.Park Ward & Co. Ltd., 473, High Road, Willesden, London N.W.10. 40H. Dear Sirs, Short Wheelbase Bentley 1.B.5. We thank you for your letter of the 9th.inst. and also confirm our remarks to your Mr Ward when we visited your works yesterday. We confirm that you agreed to move the aluminium blocks into the body bottom side, immediately in front of the wheelarch 1" forward from their present position. We omitted to mention that as on the standard Bentley, the steering wheel will be capable of being raised from the present position already given to you, about .750 of an inch. In fact we contemplate fixing it permanently in this position. We would like to hear from you that there is sufficient room between the screen and the top of the wheel in this new raised position to enable the driver, wearing gloves, to pass his hand along the top of the steering wheel. We take this opportunity of thanking you for the plywood template of the instrument board. We are now setting out the arrangement of the instruments and a print of the scheme will be forwarded to you as soon as it is completed. Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} | ||