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).
Competitor reliability and arranging a test run of a Napier car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 23\2\ Scan024 | |
| Date | 19th November 1919 | |
| R.H. 235 a (50 T) (S.B. 929. 19-11-19) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2527. PAGE 2. Of course I cannot vouch for the reliability of any of the above figures relating to the Napier. Mr. Glicksten also stated that the driver of the Napier offered to take him to Brooklands on the same car at over 80 miles an hour. This was not done, but one feels that a demonstrator is hardly likely to offer a demonstration of a performance unless he has a reasonable chance of carrying it through. I have asked Mr. Cowen again to endeavour to arrange with one of our Agents for me to be given a run on a Napier car up West Hill, Highgate. P.H. | ||