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).
Testing of new, less expensive flexible petrol pipes from Benton and Stone.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\4\ scan0053 | |
| Date | 19th July 1934 | |
| x208 BWG{J. C. Bowring} see me File To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}7/HP.19.7.34. Flexible Petrol Piping. Herewith two all metal flexible petrol pipes (suitable for 20/25 and Bentley) made by Benton and Stone. We should be glad if you will have these put on test and reported on when convenient. They are considerably less expensive than the present standard pipe. We have already passed to you for test on a Bentley a similar type of all metal pipe but made by the Gabriel Manufacturing Co. and known as Titeflex piping. E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||