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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).
Post Office Telegraph detailing a car's high mileage achievement during a world record attempt.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 39\1\  Scan166
Date  24th October 1924
  
heavy car have now exceeded nine thousand miles running at average speed of fifty miles per hour distance covered approximately five hundred miles per day this is a world's record
  
  


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