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).
Travelogue detailing a car tour through Germany, commenting on the Autobahns and interactions with locals.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\4\ scan0025 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1939 guessed | |
| - 7 - Five thousand five hundred kilometres of such tracks have now been completed, and 1500 more are in course of construction .... at a cost of Frs.1.000.000 per kilometre. A very fine effort no doubt, but one which would not have been necessary if the Reich had possessed our fine network of wide and well kept national and departmental roads, which make real touring possible and enable us thoroughly to see our country. The Autobahne are somewhat similar to desert tracks, and one soon wearies of them. Our little Franco-British group was welcomed every-where - it is true that we did not go beyond Wurtemberg and Bavaria - most amiably and we might even say with sympathy. The two Bentleys were much admired. At Ulm - a beautiful Gothic city with a spire of 162 metres, the highest in the world - as we were finishing dinner in the hotel restaurant and were feeling in an expansive mood at the end of a pleasant day's run and of an excellent dinner, our good humour spread to the adjoining tables where Germans were dining; and when, in the person of Vernon Morgan, the Reuter Agency drank to France and Peace, our neighbours rose and, lifting their glasses, took up the toast and, together, we drank to "Peace"! At Pforzheim, the following day, a schupo, seeing English cars, talked to us, quite naturally, about "Mr. Chamberlain's umbrella", and insisted on shaking hands with us. x x x | ||