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).
Request to examine a Bentley 8.B.V. for a gearbox knock and a steering grinding noise.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\5\ scan0236 | |
| Date | 10th July 1939 | |
| 4006, HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}1/R.10.7.39. Bentley 8.B.V. Will you please remove the gearbox on the above car, and examine for knock in second gear and over-drive. There is a grinding noise from the steering column, which appears to come from the side steering tube ball end. Will you please examine same. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||