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).
Requesting modification of a 7.500 pendulum lever for lighter and lower geared Bentley steering.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 87\5\ scan0218 | |
| Date | 25th November 1936 | |
| 250 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}7/AP.25.11.36. BENTLEY STEERING We wish to send to Lillie Hall one of the 7.500 pendulum levers to Ex.17856 which are in the Stores for the purpose of giving a lighter and lower geared steering on a Bentley. Will you please remove 0.100 from one of the faces at the lower end of the lever to bring it into line with a standard lever as shewn in the attached sketch, and complete the necessary hand fitting. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} Sketch att | ||