Vehicle's performance climbing the Stelvio Pass.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 56\2\ Scan022 | |
| Date | 29th June 1932 | |
| To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from G.W.H. St Moritz 29/6/32 We climbed the Stelvio to- day and took 34 min 15 sec the Official time being 31-46 We were slightly delayed by a motor cycle also a stray cow but allowing for these delays I do not believe a Phantom could do it in the time. It's taking notes the whole way up. On most of the top bends, snow still blocked the corners making it worse. We had 23 reverses, two double reverses, may be 2 or 3 could be cut out later when the snow has cleared. The chief trouble is when nearing the top there is not | ||
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).