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Road tests of coasting gear and clutch operations in London and on a 4 1/4 Bentley.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 114\4\  scan0248
Date  13th January 1939 guessed
  
tests in London. Coasting gear & clutch operations. In fact I got to know London quite well. I would not like to do it to day!
We used to set out again at 4.30 am & go to Southampton & back before breakfast & then to clutch changes in town tests lunch & again in the pm but with a changed shift of drivers.
Parallel to this as at Chateauroux(French test region) we ran a 4 1/4 Bentley on much
  
  
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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