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Car fitted with an EAC engine and a super 40/50 HP model seen in France.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 72\4\  scan0167
Date  27th March 1924 guessed
  
contd:-

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a car fitted with an EAC. engine into districts where
there are numbers of enthusiastic R-R owners.
I heard in Paris (on my way back from Le Canadel(Henry Royce's French residence)) that
Mr. Northey had been on the Riviera with a super 40/50 HP.
R-R car. No particulars were given except that it was
faster than any standard 40/50 HP. I could not
convince the chauffeur that it was a standard 40/50 HP.
with front wheel brakes.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

[Watermark: 1804 MADE AT CROXLEY]
  
  
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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