Numbered response to notes on publicity, discussing car performance, reliability, and comparisons with Bentley vehicles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\3\ scan0003 | |
| Date | 1st December 1938 guessed | |
| Re: Notes on Publicity. 1. This is the first time I have heard of 13 m.p.h. being the difference between the Paulin Bentley and the Paris trials car. This is, of course, a very much bigger margin than I anticipated. 2. Consumption. Naturally this is a very big item for consideration, especially in a 24-hour run. 3 & 4. Of course an average in twenty-four hours of 87 m.p.h. would be ridiculous. I quite agree we should give our competitors a good laugh. I had in mind between 95 and 100 m.p.h. with the orthodox type of Bentley body [handwritten correction: chassis] and radiator, etc. 5. Excellent. 6. This is answered by my covering note, i.e. the fact that it would be possible to purchase a duplicate, of which I was not aware. 7. I am one hundred per cent in favour of increasing the performance by streamlining, but this has to be combined with present day requirements. 8. Excellent. 9. The point is that we do not honestly believe that our bearings are inefficient because we have the evidence of a number of people who are entirely satisfied and there are those individual cases of reliability such as Banks' car - 75,000 and E.R.Hall's cars and many others. 10. The T.T.publicity for the Bentley was great. The fact that it was an Open special body did not interfere with publicity at all and it is an entirely different proposition from that which is under consideration. 11. I am in agreement with you that we require all the publicity possible now, but what we should try and do is to get the best reaction from the buying public, and hence my suggestion that the car should be as orthodox as possible. If this is impossible it would be better to carry out such a run with a car of the type suggested, | ||
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).