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).
Showroom report detailing a potential customer's test drive and subsequent disappointment with a Continental 40/50 HP model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\1\ Scan220 | |
| Date | 5th September 1932 | |
| EXTRACT FROM SHOWROOM REPORT DATED MONDAY, 5TH SEPT. 1932. P.S.Boyle Esq., Berkeley Hotel. The owner of an 8-cylinder Lincoln which is over here on triptyque but as he is settling in this country with his wife, he thought he would change this car for a Continental 40/50 HP. Touring Saloon, and if our car suited him, he asked if our American Co. could put him up a proposition for taking the Lincoln in part exchange, otherwise he would have to sell the car for cash in America and buy a complete new car over here. Said he would like to try the car this evening at 5.p.m. as he was sailing for America on the 10th, and would like to hear what we could do in regard to the Lincoln. I therefore called on him as arranged with 85-JS{Mr Johnson's Secretary} and informed him we would communicate with our American Co. asking them to get in direct touch with him in New York. He and his wife then went for a trial run in 85-JS{Mr Johnson's Secretary} for quite a long time and he drove the car himself for a considerable period. At the conclusion he told me he was very disappointed with the car's performance and particularly with the acceleration, vibration through the chassis, noise of the engine and the springing. The latter point I dealt with suitably. He liked the brakes and control of the car, nevertheless he said that the run had convinced him the car was unsuitable for his purpose and he would therefore have to buy another Lincoln and did not wish us to go ahead in regard to communicating with our American Co. Kn.{D. G. McKechnie - Sales} c. to Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} and Whr.{Mr Wheeler} | ||