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).
The practicality of high speeds for touring cars versus racing cars, with a mention of Bugatti and Brooklands.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 4\8\ 08-page33 | |
| Date | 6th February 1928 guessed | |
| contd :- -3- BUGATTI. This is a dif-ferent proposition because it is more or less a racing car and owing to its diminutive size and lack of the normal weather protection can probably lap at over 100 m.p.h. You will see therefore, that to talk about speeds of 110 m.p.h. for a touring car that would give reasonable comfort, is quite irrational, and if you will only check the speedometers of your cars against the watch on Brooklands we feel certain that you will materially modify your views as to what is feasible in the matter of high speeds. Our own view is that there are only about eight stretches of road in England where a genuine 90 m.p.h. can be used during the day-time with reasonable comfort on a car that could be used for touring in the full sense of the word. He. | ||