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 a list of non-standard features for a 10,000-mile Bentley test car destined for France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\1\ scan0294 | |
| Date | 11th November 1936 | |
| 200d To [struck through] Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GR.{George Ratcliffe} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Ory5/R.11.11.36. Will you please fill in and return to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls} all the non-standard features you would like to have on the next 10,000 mile Bentley, which should be leaving for France in about a month's time. Please state whether the parts you require are already in existence either in the Stores, or on an experimental chassis. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||