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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).
Providing feedback on a car's road test performance, noting specifically the ineffectiveness of the brakes.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 19\1\  Scan182
Date  22th February 1932
  
X7120.
PN.{Mr Northey}1/WT22.2.32.
S/W.
Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}...from PN.{Mr Northey}
27-EX.

This car gave me a very good ride to London on Friday last from W. I like it more than I anticipated I should. Fast average speed running however was not so much influenced by engine power as by poor power of deceleration. One has to stand on the brakes very hard, and I do not consider them very effective.

Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} and Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} are coming out on the car with me on Thursday for a further run, and I should like to hear from you by return whether there is anything we can simply do to these brakes to make them more effective.

Thank you for Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/MJ17.2.32, being list of modified parts.

PN.{Mr Northey}

[STAMPED] RECEIVED 23 FEB 1932
  
  


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