Vehicle's performance during a road test on difficult mountain passes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 56\2\ Scan023 | |
| Date | 4th July 1932 guessed | |
| sufficient distance from bend to bend to gather speed On second gear you do not get more than 12 MPH between the [unreadable] lower down 40 is reached on third. The whole trip is very difficult and only a small high speed, one and a half times the acceleration of the Phantom can hope to succeed. The Pass del Giovo at the end of the first day run is positively dangerous going down. He did it in one hour, but the road is so narrow that 20 MPH is too fast. The Water has not boiled on any of the passes & and no trouble has occurred max temp reached 92°. Mr Farr has come to the decision that the Car is not suitable for the test. report later Jeffcock b reverse going down Stelvio | ||
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).