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).
Tyre pressures for the B-27-LE streamline car, a customer, Corniche car delivery, and a test drive of a Grey Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\4\ scan0123 | |
| Date | 2nd August 1939 | |
| W/S. Bly.{B. W. Bleaney - Bentley Sales} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} B-27-LE - STREAMLINE CAR. The tyre pressures which ought to be used on this car depend entirely upon the conditions under which it is driven. If the owner intends to indulge in continuous high speed running, the tyres should be inflated to 40 lbs square inch all round cold. If he is going to drive the car about in the normal way, which covers almost any motoring which can be done in England, 30 lbs pressure all round can be used, but this should be regarded as a minimum and the tyre pressures checked frequently. If the man to whom you have sold the car is not a careful individual it would probably be best to tell him to use 35 lbs. I note what you say about Briggs Cunningham, and will exert my personality to the full in order to prevent him buying a Lagonda. When are you prepared to give delivery of Corniche cars ? I took the Grey Bentley with the 8-cyl. engine (which you tried when at Derby) to Norfolk on Monday driving it 300 miles in the day. This is the first really long cross-country run I have had on this car. I have never driven anything like it, and made the trip from my house to King's Lynn in two hours without taking any sort of a risk. If Lagondas have anything to touch it they have something of which to be proud! Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||