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).
The road testing and preparation of the Streamline-Bentley, chassis No. B.23-AE.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\1\ Scan006 | |
| Date | 12th October 1933 | |
| YX261 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}...........from Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Copy to RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/IH.12.10.33. re: STREAMLINE-BENTLEY. CHASSIS No.B.23- AE. We shall soon have the body and wings of this car in a sufficiently advanced state to enable us to run it on the road. This we would like to do to enable us to see how the cycle type front wings mounted on the axle are going to behave. The Experimental Department are sending here to fit the new stub axles and wing stays immediately. We would be glad, therefore, if you could arrange to send us those parts of the carburettor which were removed so as to avoid the Coachbuilder driving the car. The writer will make himself responsible, seeing that nobody other than himself or JLE{J. Lee Evans - Chassis Test Manager} drives the car. When the car is completed, which will not be very long now, the writer will drive the car to Derby himself. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} [Signature] LID{A. J. Lidsey} See me Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||