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 StreamlineExperimental Streamline Bentley B.23.A.E 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] | ||
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).