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 parts for a Bentley exhaust system, specifying materials and processes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\3\ scan0122 | |
| Date | 31th December 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X223 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}9/KW.31.12.35. Bentley Exhaust System. Will you please build up for us one Bentley exhaust downtake pipe and front expansion box in mild steel, including fitting flange EB.768 as shewn on arrangement drawing EB.1155, and one straight through pipe similar to the one fitted to 3-B-IV, also in mild steel. We intend sending away both of these pipes for "FESCOLISING" and the two strengthening tubes EB.1287 fitted in the front expansion box should be made in stainless steel as per our present standard. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.H.Whyman. | ||