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).
Strategy for gaining approval to put a J.1 engine into a Bensport chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\4\ 04-page102 | |
| Date | 7th October 1932 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X4553. To Wcr. from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Bensport. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}13/E7.10.32 Copy to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Referring to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/MA.30.9.32 and our lengthy discussion on the subject yesterday, I was thinking afterwards that, before we act on the decision come to, i.e. to put the J.1 engine out of 19-G-IV into a Bensport chassis, we ought to put a memo. up to R.{Sir Henry Royce} on the subject, and I suggest that Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} should write a memo., utilising the greater part of his memo. quoted above, refer to the fact that it was discussed at a full conference at Derby, etc. etc. and put it up in such a way as not actually to ask for approval but to infer that "silence will give consent". Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||