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 the dispatch of Bentley front brake equalizer levers and an examination of all experimental cars to correct previous mistakes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\5\ scan0068 | |
| Date | 24th March 1937 | |
| 200a HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM{Anthony F. Martindale}1/R.24.3.37. 3.B.IV. Will you please send out to I.M.Waller, c/o Franco Britannic Autos, Paris, a pair of Bentley front brake equalizer levers, GB.2205 and GB.449. As this is the second time a mistake in equalizer lever lengths has been made with unfortunate results, we want every experimental Bentley car examining, and the levers brought up to standard, if necessary, and any non-standard equalizer levers on the cars and in the Stores handing to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} who will be responsible that they do not get wrongly fitted in future. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||