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On hotel letterhead from Turin regarding a car's performance, noting radiator overheating and a high-speed wobble after a drive from Nice.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 19\5\  Scan061
Date  11th April 1930 guessed
  
Grd. Hôtel Suisse Terminus
TURIN
vis-à-vis de la {L. A. Archer} gare
Tel 2-278 - 43-354 - C.C.I. Torino N. 60351

X8992.

Saturday

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Sim H {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} /S,

We came from Nice here today. not many miles. but a long way by road.

We had our radiator 87° at Nice but the flow was 100% but all the way today we have been over 90° or boiling

We wedged the shutters full open

We had a front tyre puncture at Nice the spare is evidently lower pressure the car is most unpleasant. at high speeds very nearly finishes in a high speed wobble.
  
  
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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