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).
Letter discussing the Streamline Bentley, a rival 12-cylinder Lagonda, and competition at the Motor Show.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\1\ img099 | |
| Date | 1st October 1940 | |
| [Handwritten Signature] [Handwritten Initials: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}] Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}6/KW1.10.40. I think perhaps you would be interested to know that our Streamline Bentley, which was to have been exhibited on our Stand at the Motor Show last October, would have had a very similar rival in a 12-cylinder Lagonda, of which I enclose herewith illustrations and brief details. It rather looks as though they must have got news of the fact that we intended to exhibit such a car, and felt compelled to stage a rival, so as not to let us have all the glory. Encs. [Handwritten Initials: Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}Lwb] | ||