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).
Newspaper clipping from the Derby Evening Telegraph about Captain George Eyston's speed record.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\4\ scan0101 | |
| Date | 18th July 1939 | |
| 1349. FROM "DERBY EVENING TELEGRAPH" 18.7.39. 114 m.p.h. BY CAPTAIN EYSTON. —The highest speed ever attained by a standard closed car at Brooklands was achieved early to-day by Captain George Eyston. He covered 114.62 miles in an hour at the wheel of a streamlined Bentley. The speed was officially timed by the R.A.C. | ||