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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 to Cadillac discussing bringing a Bentley to America and critiquing an Essex Terraplane.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 170\2\  img145
Date  15th June 1938
  
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}14/KT.

June 15th 1938.

M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Orley Esq.,
The Cadillac Motor Co.,
Detroit,
Michigan,
U.S.A.

Dear Oy.,

Thank you very much indeed for your extremely good letter. I don't know of anyone who can express himself so lucidly on technical subjects.

I will write you at length when I have digested the contents of your letter more fully.

We have about got the Bentley ready for the market, and there is just a possibility that I may bring one over to America after Xmas. If so I hope your company will see fit to allow you to have a short tour on the car.

After years of dealing with elderly females suffering from deranged digestive organs who never exceed speeds of 30 m.p.h., our new product has revived my flagging interest in motoring.

I tried an Essex 4½ litre Terraplane, 8 cylinder, on the track this week and narrowly escaped turning the car over. I have never met a more uncontrollable vehicle in my life. I cannot understand how people

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