Article by the Earl of Cardigan titled 'Twelve Months After' about the Continental Touring Model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\1\ Scan095 | |
| Date | 1st March 1931 guessed | |
| Twelve Months After The Rolls-Royce Continental Touring Model by the Earl of Cardigan ALMOST exactly twelve months ago I was reclining in a very handsome Phantom II Rolls-Royce, which also contained three other men and a quantity of suitcases and cameras. We were skimming down one of those magnificent new roads which have recently been built in Spain. The needle of the speedometer was hovering at 88 m.p.h. the engine was humming very softly to itself, and only the swish of the tyres announced that we were travelling at any unusual speed. If anyone had asked me then whether I expected to travel in any other car at such a speed with equal silence, comfort, and security I should have replied decidedly, “Not for a number of years, at any rate.” Actually I was destined to discover within a year a car which is both faster and more comfortable. Its name is the Rolls-Royce Continental Touring Model, and it is, I believe, the direct outcome of the Spanish trip to which I have referred. THIS is, in itself, a rather wonderful achievement, but it is also an extremely interesting one as an example of the manner in which Rolls-Royce supremacy has been built up and maintained. The average man, had he succeeded in building a silent and luxurious car with an 80 m.p.h. cruising speed, would be inclined to pat himself on the back, sink back in his office chair, and wait for the dividends to come rolling in. Not so the designer of the | ||
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).