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).
Conversation regarding Sir Malcolm Campbell's satisfaction with his Bentley and his original Phantom 34-GN.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\5\ Scan024 | |
| Date | 18th January 1935 | |
| To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wcr.Lp.{Mr Lappin} re Mr.Fairey. I sat next to him at the Dinner last night given by Sir Malcolm Campbell. In the course of conversation he told me that he was delighted with his new Bentley and he thought that you had done a marvellous job of work in correcting the shimmy trouble of the lamps and wings. He was also singing the praises of his original Phantom 34-GN. He says it has now done 59,000 miles under the most strenuous conditions, is still a marvellous car and he reckons that under his way of driving it has outlived three normal motor-cars. He was telling me of some extraordinarily high speed run that he had just accomplished on it from London to Southampton or wherever he keeps Shamrock. He was rather lamenting the fact that we had never put into production a Phantom with the same features as his, and as a matter of interest I should be glad if you could get looked up the special points which we gave him, i.e. the main differences between his engine and the latest Continental Phantom of to-day, and what extra speed such differences really give. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||