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).
Performance and fuel consumption test results for a 'Streamline' Bentley in Germany.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\4\ scan0022 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1939 guessed | |
| - 4 - And now, a few figures: Mannheim to Carlsruhe: 44 Kms., with two slow- downs to overtake lorries: 16' 29", i.e. an average of 160 Kms.600 per hour. Carlsruhe to Stuttgart: 15 Kms. with one slow-down: 5' 1". No... you have not misread this: five minutes and one second i.e. an average of 179 Kms. 200 per hour. The maximum speed obtained was 19" for one kilo- metre, i.e. an average of 189 Kms. 470 per hour. In our opinion, however, this maximum speed is not of as much interest as the above averages. The outstanding qua- lities of the "Streamline" are its acceleration and its road holding, particularly on bends. And now we come to the most remarkable feature of the "Streamline" Bentley, the one where it really gives the measure of its excellence and where, surely, it reigns supreme: At the Bruchsal filling station, under the vigi- lant eyes of the two English Journalists, the petrol tank was completely drained by the filling station staff and, with a stamped half litre measure, 4 litres 500 (i.e. a gallon) of the high grade standard fuel sold on the Autobähne were put into the tank, which quantity is of course too small to give the best re- sults for a consumption test. Then, with three up, Sleator at the wheel keeping the speed at exactly 130 k.p.h., the "Streamline" only stopped, of its own accord, at the end of 37 Kms. | ||