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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).
US travel itinerary and comparing the performance of a V8 Ford to a Bentley.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\1\  img361
Date  4th February 1933 guessed
  
My present programme
is still to tear myself away
from Detroit about the 17th,
go to Cleveland, Dayton, Delco
Electric, Bendix Electric etc
also Langley Field, then to New
York to ship the car before
returning here to take a final
look round.

I am glad Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} has
taken an interest in the
Terraplane engine, if he keeps
fit he may yet keep us from
complete stagnation.

This trip has been more
worth while than the last.

I find that the latest-
V8 Ford, which has been entirely
spoilt for smoothness but pepped
up considerably, is about all a
match for the Bentley on anything
except 5 mile straights.
Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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