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).
Progress report on the Peregrine and Bensport car projects, detailing road tests and development status.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 3\4\ 04-page165 | |
| Date | 18th January 1933 | |
| 84553 To Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/MJ.18.1.33. PEREGRINE & BENSPORT. (x-or). Peregrine. We have completed about 20,000 miles on the road on three Peregrine cars. This includes 12,000 miles in France. The general condition of the car after the test in France is satisfactory. There are, of course, a number of faults which have shewn up but in the majority of cases these were known before the car started the run. The 4th. Peregrine should be completed in a week and the 5th., which will have all the modifications known at present, should be ready for test in about two or three weeks. The Bumper chassis has run several hundred hours and the engines on the test beds have also run several hundred hours. The most backward unit is the carburetter and induction pipe. We shall be sending a car to France next week with all known modifications except carburetter and induction pipe, steering, and dynamo. Bensport. The first mock-up car has been run on the road. Owing to the road conditions - snow and wet - it is impossible to try the car out thoroughly, but as soon as conditions are satisfactory a report will be issued. The instructions for the final car are well in hand but owing to the pressure of other work such as improvements to 25 HP., 40/50, and Peregrine, we expect it will be approximately two months before we get a car with correct gearbox etc. In the meantime much useful work can be done on the present car. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||