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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
  
  


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