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).
Typed memorandum regarding the maximum speed to be advertised for the Big Bore Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\4\ scan0227 | |
| Date | 17th January 1936 | |
| S/W. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} re- Big Bore Bentley. CxIO/KW17.1.36. Will you please let us know just what maximum speed we shall be able to claim for this car. We remember that in at least one of Hancock's reports from France he referred to having attained a speed of 100 m.p.h. on the level. We are at present drafting out the statement which we propose to insert in the Press when we make this change known to the Public. We do not wish to mention in the advertisements anything by way of maximum speed higher than we can attain, in fact we do not wish to speak of maximum speed at all if we cannot give something better than what we led the Public to suppose they could get with the 3½ litre, i.e. 94 m.p.h. at 4,500 r.p.m. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} Luce | ||