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 Rudge-Whitworth Limited concerning the road testing of new motor bicycles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan169 | |
| Date | 30th November 1923 | |
| X1775 Rudge-Whitworth Limited. TELEGRAMS, TELEPHONE RUDGE, 1104. COVENTRY. H.S Coventry. Friday, 30th November, 1923. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. RECEIVED Dear Sirs, ROAD TESTING NEW PRODUCTS. In our new models of Motor Bicycles, owing to their rather late production, we have had to attempt to get our road testing done as quickly as possible. I have before me the records of one of our new machines that has done just over 10,000 miles. I find that this has taken six weeks or approximately 40 days, which is only 250 miles per day. We have been running these tests in three-hour shifts, beginning at 5.0 in the morning and continuing till 11.0 at night; each of the shifts is a little over 60 miles. The shifts in the dark are not so easy as those in the day, where the three hours allow a certain amount of time for shop adjustment between the finishing of one shift and the beginning of the next. If there are no interruptions either for weather or for failures or inspection we ought to get 360 miles a day, but as above, it drops down to only about two-thirds of this. (Cont'd on sheet 2.) | ||