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).
Complaining that the sunshine roof on a 1BIV model causes a cold, and an anecdote about hitting a traffic signal.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\1\ img239 | |
Date | 19th January 1934 guessed | |
usual procedure is to remove the coat and drink cool water to keep cool. The sunshine roof on 1BIV is a misnomer. Its sole function so far has been to direct a blast of air at -5°F or less onto the back of my neck for 800 miles. I have now such a chronic cold that I am rectifying the trouble by gluing it up solid. My sight is suffering from this cold, this evening I ran over a large yellow traffic signal, fortunately it was of the mobile variety but it took a Cop some little time to extricate it | ||