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).
Requests for sports specifications on the 25 HP model, its unsuitability for speed, and an alternative modification.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\1\ scan0314 | |
| Date | 19th December 1931 | |
| To Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} X5410 Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/MJ.19.12.31. (X5410 X5770 [struck through] 25 HP. CAR. There have been several specifications for 25 HP. cars lately, which have asked for stiffer road springs and Hartford shock absorbers. It is assumed from this that the car is intended to be a fast sports car. On the present 25 HP. we know that it can never be very fast an owner might be disappointed if he was lead to believe that it would have any speed. The alternative appears to be to carry out the same modifications as was done on Lord Cholmondeley's car. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||