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).
On an Inspector's Report form discussing the 'Economy Fetish' of 10,000 miles versus real-world road tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 30\6\ Scan004 | |
| Date | 7th December 1927 | |
| Economy with "Fetish" of 10,000 miles what we actually get. 10000 miles purely a fuel- and a test of what we have just built. We have laboriously to minimise a series of tests because expensive & protracted. such as climbing alpine passes. These tests are not- scientist's tests academic in any way, they can all be expressed absolutely and in terms of road conditions or mileage. | ||