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).
Report by a motoring correspondent on speed and stopping distance tests for four-wheel brakes fitted to a Bentley car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 30\6\ Scan131 | |
| Date | 1st November 1923 | |
| Nov. 1923. X.1559. FOUR WHEEL BRAKES - BENTLEY CAR. SPEED AND CIRCLE TESTS - (By the motoring correspondent) Today and tomorrow are popular days at the Motor Show at Olympia, the price of admission, being reduced to 2/ed.{J. L. Edwards} Four wheel brakes, which are shewn in numerous variety at the exhibition, continue to excite interest and discussion. The Royal Automobile Club yesterday issued a report of a trial conducted with four wheel brakes fitted to a Bentley car. The following table shows the distances required to pull up the car at various speeds; four passengers were carried. M.P.H. Stopping distances. 10 3 ft. 6 in. 20 19 ft. 9 in. 30 46 ft. 40 86 ft. 6 in. In all tests there was locking of the back wheels, but even not on the front wheels, when the brakes were applied. ------------------- | ||