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Letter to the Derby Daily Telegraph regarding a high-speed run by a Continental Bentley Saloon.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 160\3\  scan0209
Date  14th February 1939
  
RMG/R.

14th February, 1939.

The Editor,
"Derby Daily Telegraph",
Northcliffe House,
DERBY.

Dear Sir,

The attached information may interest you.

The latest Continental Bentley Saloon car which recently did a high speed run on the Continent as per attached message from Reuters' News Agency, completed to-day an average of 107.42 on Montlhery officially timed by the A.C.F., and achieved a speed of over 110 m.p.h. for one lap.

We attach a photograph of the car, which we should be glad if you would return.

Yours faithfully,

For ROLLS-ROYCE LTD.

P.S. Please return Reuter telegram.
  
  
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).


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