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).
Request for particulars on a tested Austro-Daimler car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 21\1\ Scan008 | |
| Date | 22th October 1925 | |
| W/S. To C. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X1056 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rml/LG22.10.25. RE. AUSTRO-DAIMLER. We asked the Austro-Daimler people to give us one or two particulars of the car we tried - weight, compression ratio, axle ratio and petrol consumption. They are passing these details to Mr. Manning of Barkers who promised to let you have them. We should be obliged if you would forward this information as soon as it comes to hand. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||