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 to 'MOTOR SPORT' magazine regarding a recent article and suggesting topics for future articles, including a pre-war trip on the German Autobahnen.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\5\ scan0273 | |
| Date | 7th April 1941 | |
| Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/ML. 1941 PWD camp 7.4.41. 1378 W.Boddy,Esq., "MOTOR SPORT" 129, Fleet Road, S.Farnborough. HANTS. Dear Mr. Boddy, Many thanks for your letter of the 10th. March. I regret having been so long in acknowledging this. I have at last seen a copy of your February number of "Motor Sport" and I must say that you have been exceedingly kind to us. I know that a number of Bentley owners would be interested to have a copy of this issue, and would be grateful if you could arrange for your publishers to send 12 copies, addressed to me personally at Derby, with the Account, with which I will deal. With regard to further material for future articles, I should think your public will have been surfeited with the name of Rolls Royce and Bentley for at least a month or two, but if you will come up here for a day when an opportunity presents itself, I am sure I can give you enough information to fill a couple of pages. You might like to write about various types of engine which we have made and discarded, or alternatively, the trip we made on the German Autobahnen just before the outbreak of war, might be of topical interest. You will remember that we took a representative of Reuter's and the "Autocar" had a very descriptive article on the subject, but there are quite a number of unrecorded incidents. We were credited with averaging 112 m.p.h. for five minutes, which is more exciting than it sounds when there are any other vehicles about, even on the one-way road. This particular run established one fact very firmly in my mind, and that is that the fast road of the future must exclude slow traffic. - Continued - | ||