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).
The absence of ventilation on a sample steel body for car B-56-BN.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90a\4\ Scan255 | |
| Date | 29th May 1936 | |
| S/W To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re B-56-BN{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington}, in France. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}4/E29.5.36 I notice in Han's report of the 25th, he refers to scuttle temperature after a long run and absence of ventilation and I could not understand this. I therefore made enquiries and find that this sample steel body was originally made with a system of ventilation through the body pillars but that later some alterations were made to the chassis which cut this out so that it is correct that it has no/ ventilation. All the standard bodies including the all-steel ones have the scuttle ventilator. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||