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).
Road tests of coasting gear and clutch operations in London and on a 4 1/4 Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\4\ scan0248 | |
| Date | 13th January 1939 guessed | |
| tests in London. Coasting gear & clutch operations. In fact I got to know London quite well. I would not like to do it to day! We used to set out again at 4.30 am & go to Southampton & back before breakfast & then to clutch changes in town tests lunch & again in the pm but with a changed shift of drivers. Parallel to this as at Chateauroux we ran a 4 1/4 Bentley on much | ||