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 from 'The Motor' magazine regarding the performance of a Bentley V after a previous road test.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\5\ scan0252 | |
| Date | 13th March 1941 | |
| Copy. 1941 pub camp (handwritten) THE MOTOR, Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1. M/131/BT.{Capt. J. S. Burt - Engineer} 13th March, 1941. A.F. Sidgreaves, Esq., Rolls-Royce, Ltd., 14-15 Conduit Street, LONDON. W.1. Dear Mr. Sidgreaves, Some time ago Mr. Cox told me that you were a little disappointed with our reference to the maximum speed of the Bentley V in the course of our road test report on it in "The Motor" of December 4. Your people tell me that they have since discovered that, by an accident, the carburetter setting was not quite as it should have been and I was able, last week-end, to try the car again in correct tune. It is, I would say, a different thing altogether. My previous remarks were, I assure you, made in all sincerity on the evidence of the car as I had it, but in its present form I would count it as one of the fastest cars on the road over a long distance: I would even venture to speculate, the fastest car that I have tested, although present conditions make the actual verification of this impossible. However, in the course of a short run we got well over 90 m.p.h. from it repeatedly and covered 27 1/2 miles between "The Cromwell Arms" to Stevenage and Pembroke College at Cambridge in 23 mins, an average of 72.6 m.p.h. without any fireworks or discomfort. P.T.O. | ||