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).
Customer's telephone feedback on the performance of chassis 65-GX, specifically regarding temperature and speed.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 47\3\ Scan166 | |
| Date | 24th August 1931 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} S/W. DY{F R Danby}/OChr H/T. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X4117 RECEIVED C9/D24.8.31. re: Chassis 65-GX. - G H Cochrane, Esq. With further reference to our correspondence on this matter, Mr. Cochrane has just telephoned me to say that he had a very good run down from Scotland and averaged between 49 and 50 miles an hour from Aberdeen. He says that although his radiator shutters were not much more than half open, he never got his temperature above 75° to 80° so that he thinks he will risk taking the car on the Continent and if he should have any trouble will have the radiator changed when he returns. For the time being, therefore, there is nothing more to do. Incidentally, he is very pleased indeed with the car, with the exception that in comparing it with his late Phantom II he thinks that his Continental is not as fast. He is sending the car in to Cricklewood to-morrow for them to see that everything is in order before he takes it abroad. C. | ||