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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).
Newspaper clipping from 'The Daily Mail' reporting on the performance trials of a 4 1/4-litre Bentley car.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 160\3\  scan0246
Date  15th February 1939
  
The Daily Mail
15.2.39.

[Image of a Bentley car with license plate 2RI-9]

Breaking away from tradition, official trials have just been carried out to test the possibilities of the 4¼-litre, 4-seater, Bentley car, equipped strictly for touring. These trials were made under French Automobile Club rules, at the Monthlery track, near Paris, with Mr. A.{Mr Adams} W. Sleator, of the Franco-Britannic Autos, Ltd., agents in France for Rolls-Royce and Bentley, at the wheel.

The results were as follows :—

Speed test over one hour's running.—Average speed : 107 miles 420 an hour (172km. 873 per hour).
Best lap, against strong wind : 110 miles 043 an hour (177km. 097 per hour).
Petrol consumption : 25 litres to the 100 kilomètres.

This consumption could, however, be considerably reduced for, during a road average-speed consumption test carried out recently on one of the German autostrades, the petrol consumption worked out to only a little over 12 litres per 100 kilomètres and for an average speed of about 90 miles an hour.
  
  


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