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).
Copy of a letter from a customer inquiring about the availability and price of a pump seen on a Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\5\ scan0182 | |
| Date | 2nd April 1936 guessed | |
| COPY OF LETTER received by Kinsman Limited, Stirchley, Birmingham. Merok, Church Way, Sanderstead, Surrey. Messrs. Kinsman, Ltd., Gentlemen, My brother at Melbourne, Australia, was on the dock side whilst some Bentley Cars were being unloaded and watching a mechanic inflating the tyres was particularly struck with the ease with which this was done by the particular pump used. He tried it himself but was informed unlikely to be obtainable in Melbourne, it being an accessory to the Bentley. On the handle was stamped:- Kinsman Ltd., Stirchley, Birmingham. Patent No. 384911. Can you inform me if this particular pump can be obtained in Melbourne, if so from whom, and if obtainable here from local garages and price? Thanking you in anticipation, Yours truly, P. B. Pattenden. | ||