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).
Letter on hotel stationery detailing car performance and road damage encountered in France and Italy.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\4\ scan0259 | |
| Date | 15th December 1938 | |
| HÔTEL MODERNE & DES TROIS DAUPHINS Rue Félix-Poulat GRENOBLE G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} Rivier, Propriétaire TÉLÉPHONE 2.71 Télégrammes: HOTEL MODERNE - GRENOBLE 400b Le 12 Dec 15/12/38 fh- By C to Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Note last para. Am You will have rung C.W up to say that the car is going well. from its 3 1/2 days continuous rain (and on the French roads slippery?) we stopped at Milan late on Saturday night. Having got lost on the way we had to go on a secondary road resembling a river bed. Stones bent the tin shield for the hand brake ratchet, jammed the fan lever & altered the range of denting up the filter to an unattainable amount. Italian roads on wet nights are not my idea of motoring. Today we have done a few miles from Menton to Lyon & arrive here. I tomorrow will get the car over a pit at Chateauroux to have a look. | ||