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).
Typed account of a journey in a Bentley being overtaken by a 'Streamline' car at 150 K.P.H.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\4\ scan0026 | |
| Date | 9th March 1939 guessed | |
| - 8 - On the return journey, in the standard Bentley, we were running at about 150 k.p.h., with the "Streamline" follow- ing gently, when a short bark warned us that she was preparing to go ahead. Without a sound she glided forward and overtook us as an express might overtake a slow train, and she vanished in the distance, leaving us to our jog-trot pace... And yet, the stop watch was still there to remind us that we were running at 150 K.P.H.! And this called to mind a day about 1903 or 1904, Serpollet had lent us one of his cars, and the speed had some- times struck us as being excessive! What days we live in! Géo LEFEVRE | ||