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Specifications for a sportier 25 HP car, with suggestions for modifications to increase speed.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 5a\1\  01-page255
Date  19th December 1931
  
85770.
To Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} From Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
c. to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 2/MJ.19.12.31.

X 5010

25 HP. CAR.

There have been several specifications for 25 HP. cars lately, which have asked for stiffer road springs and Hartford shock absorbers. It is assumed from this that the car is intended to be a fast sports car.

On the present 25 HP. we know that it can never be very fast and an owner might be disappointed if he was lead to believe that it would have any speed.

The alternative appears to be to carry out the same modifications as was done on Lord Cholmondeley's car.

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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