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).
Trial and acceptance of a batch of Bentley wheel spanners.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 155\4\ scan0100 | |
| Date | 11th November 1933 | |
| To E/JNR.{Charles L. Jenner} 1326 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}9/KT.11.11.33. re: BENTLEY WHEEL SPANNER. E/JNR{Charles L. Jenner}1/HP7.11.33. We have tried this wheel spanner. It does its job, but it has of course the same defects as the spanner tried prior to the instruction for a drop forge spanner with a rounded edge to receive the hammer blows. Under the circumstances we think we should accept the 160 spanners of this type on condition that when these are used up we proceed with the drop forged type. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||