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).
Modifications to a dummy chassis with Park Ward for a new Bentley 50 body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\1\ scan0011 | |
| Date | 14th January 1938 | |
| To By... from Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} c. to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} 104H 804 Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}28/N.14.1.38. Bentley 50 Body. We told Messrs.Park Ward that we should want a body for 1.B.50 and explained to them how they could modify the dummy chassis of B.3. for this purpose by inserting 6" in the centre of the chassis cross and side members. We shall give them direct instructions about this as soon as they have completed the second dummy chassis for B.3. at the same time sending them a drawing of the body. It is interesting to note that they tell us that a vertical dropping division is very much cheaper than the tilt and drop division, such as we use on our Rolls-Royce bodies. We likewise told them that this body should represent the construction which they would offer us on production in the £150 body, and we should like to have a brief specification of what it would consist. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||