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).
Inquiry regarding the availability of the Montlhéry track and procedures for obtaining an officially timed lap.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\2\ Scan135 | |
Date | 2nd December 1933 | |
W/Paris: To Sr. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 2/KT. 2.12.33. x1771 Will you please let me know whether Montlhery will be closed any time between now and Xmas, if so we should like to know the dates, as we may bring a car over to run on this track, before Xmas. Will you also please let us know what arrangements have to be made in order to obtain an officially timed figure for the lap and kilometre. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||