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Brief typed report on a competitor's car, commenting on its appearance versus poor performance.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 23\5\  Scan067
Date  23th January 1928
  
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Hy {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} 2/W23.1.28.

It is smart in appearance and takes the eye of most people, but the running of it is poor in the extreme. Anyone who suggested that this car was a competitor of the Rolls-Royce must have 'a bee in his bonnet'.

Hy. {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} [Signature]
  
  
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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