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).
Request for a car with split type pistons for experimentation at West Wittering.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 77\3\ scan0035 | |
| Date | 29th November 1919 | |
| To EH. from R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to CJ. c. to BN.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} E.F.C. COPY. X.3432 R1/G29.11.19. X.3432 RE CAR FOR WEST WITTERINGHenry Royce's home town. X.2631 If we are not making hopeful progress, by the time you receive this, with the plunger pistons, I should be glad if you would let us have a car here with the best pistons that you are fitting of the split type. I think you may want more than one engine to experiment on, and 49-GB would be quite good for one of these, and the grey paint would naturally better stand the pulling about that would be unavoidable. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||