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Road test report after a 2000-mile trip through France and Italy, detailing suspension, body, and performance observations.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 90\4\  scan0021
Date  16th April 1935 guessed
  
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I have covered over 2000 miles in this trip through France, & Italy up to date, & the car has otherwise done well.
The springing is a great improvement, but the rear springs still sometimes crash on the rubber buffers on a bad piece of road at speed.
The Park Ward body seems to be standing up pretty well so far, it creaks, & groans, a bit at times, but on the whole the roads, in Italy are excellent, & quite as good as in England.
This new car has not the maximum performance of my old one, 85 M.P.H is about all I can get out of it on Esso petrol, & I have some difficulty in
  
  
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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