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).
Note on how increased body weight and poor aerodynamics negated engine power improvements in the Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\3\ scan0008 | |
| Date | 1st December 1938 guessed | |
| Briefly, all the developement work we have done on engine power output since the introduction of the Bentley has been swallowed up in increased body weight & dimensions. The Paulin car represents the one bit of research available that really has improved performance. We are tremendously handicapped by the bad aerodynamic shape of the front of the Standard Bentley, if it was a Chrysler it would or a Lincoln Zephyr it would be 5 or 6 M.P.H. faster with the same H.P. | ||