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).
Critical assessment of a Lincoln chassis, covering its body, instruments, clutch, engine, and headlights.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\3\ scan0020 | |
| Date | 2nd December 1935 | |
| - 2 - and the car in this respect seemed quite silent. The body, the standard American production, on the Lincoln chassis was the worst American body I have been in for some time from the point of view of noise, rattle and creaking, and did not live up to the reputation I have always associated with American coachwork in these respects. It was also the worst American body I have driven for wind noises, although the car was not fitted with a sunshine roof. The instruments are, I think, the worst I have ever had to drive with at night. Their legibility is very poor, and they are very dazzling. Most of the time, i.e. outside the 30 m.p.h. limits I had to drive with the instrument board lights switched off. We are miles ahead of this feature on this car with our own arrangement. The clutch behaved very well, and the car would start quite smoothly on any gear, including top, without any effect or trouble. The engine has only four main bearings, and a dual down draught Stromberg carburettor, from which the slow running was reasonably good down to about 8 m.p.h. on top. The accessibility of the sparking plugs was very noticeable, they being in the top of the cylinder heads and right under one's hand as the bonnet is opened. The headlights were very poor and not nearly good enough for a high-powered fast car. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} | ||