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).
Experiments with car 1718 on the Alpine hills, focusing on water temperature.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 78\3\ scan0029 | |
| Date | 10th August 1912 | |
| Mr Barrington. X496 3500 10.8.12 RE EXPERIMENTS WITH 1718 ON THE ALPINE HILLS. Below I give report received from my man Sinclair who is driving the above car. I am still running 1718 without the dashboard plate and the water does not heat so much. As both cars were out together today I had a chance of taking water and temperature of both cars. We did a run of 60 miles going at an average of 30 m.p.h.. I took water temperature at finish of run. 1026E Mystery, water temp. 93 c.- Open car 1718 " " 78' c Limousine | ||