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).
Comparison of a Bugatti racing car's performance against the practical high speeds of a touring car on English roads.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 128\1\ scan0038 | |
| Date | 30th January 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 115 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. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||