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Letter from Briggs Cunningham to Mr. Robotham discussing a meeting, cars, and a potential trade.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 174\2\  img325
Date  1st August 1960 guessed
  
M.Y. ALICE.
August 1.

Dear Mr. Robotham:

Thanks for your letter of the 28th. I will see you at the Works sometime on the 10th, but it probably won't be before lunch, as I can't leave here until the night of the 9th.
I went up to Lagondas at Staines yesterday on my way to London, and am very interested in the Le Mans cars. I left my Bentley there, as I may turn it in on a special job they are considering doing for me.

I am anxious to see your new chassis, however, and am looking forward to the 10th. I am not very interested in the Streamline(Experimental Streamline Bentley B.23.A.E), as I want a car that will open up, and I don't care so much for speed as I do acceleration. My Buick will beat both the Bentley and the Lagonda, so I am slightly disappointed all around.

Most sincerely,
Briggs Cunningham
  
  
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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