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Sending a 5-EX Silver Ghost to Conduit Street to investigate an overheating issue, and carrying a spare bonnet for a 20 HP car.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 119\3\  scan0092
Date  17th June 1925
  
Wdr. from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

X55

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 6/LG17.6.25.

OVERHEATING. X766

We are sending 5-EX car to Conduit Street tomorrow. This car is a standard Silver Ghost(1907 40/50 historic RAC 15,000 miles trial).

The car will have louvred and plain bonnets.

It will carry with it a louvred bonnet which should fit on to one of the 20 HP. cars in London.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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).


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