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).
Directive to testers to ensure work on Bentleys is instructed on Phoenix or B.III order numbers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\2\ scan0261 | |
| Date | 16th November 1937 | |
| Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} All Testers c. HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} 1044? 800 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}13/R.16.11.37. A lot of the present work we are doing on Bentleys is being carried out solely to provide work for Phoenix designs. Will you, therefore, please see that this work is instructed on Phoenix or B.III order numbers. Recent tests which we can call to mind are:- unground gears on the Bentley gearbox, dynamometer work on Bentley rear axles, petrol pumps fitted in the frame, combined hand and foot brake on the Bentley and thermoid brake lining. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||