Memo detailing poor road conditions and the unsuitability for a modern car, with observations of other vehicles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\4\ 04-page066 | |
| Date | 30th April 1912 | |
| R.R. 476 (50 H) (X 247. 30.4.12) E.P. 1769. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, 14-15, CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, W. TELEGRAMS; "ROLHEAD(Rolls-Royce telegram address)," LONDON. TELEPHONES: 1654, 1655, 1656 GERRARD. DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. DATE. at least four bridges in the first six miles, & would find more were care not taken to keep a wheel up on an unused portion of the track. I was visiting a man who owned. Tried with him a Fiat & a Mercedes, & with neither was the slightest care taken on these culverts. Lord Plymouth was at the next lodge up the Valley & indeed I saw many cars there. The feeling that no owner of a modern Rolls-Royce car would take it there is disquieting. Moreover on the main road up the side of Loch Ness I had to use the greatest care in two places. While yesterday we forded on a by road This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||
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).