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).
Discrepancy in a car's maximum speed and questioning the speedometer's accuracy.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 109\5\ scan0250 | |
| Date | 6th December 1938 | |
| [Handwritten] Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} You might test this I have never been able to exceed 72 MPH HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} S/W. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 663. [Typed] WXA-2. Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}2/KW.6.12.38. I thought you would be interested to hear that Mr.Clark of Cockshoots, Manchester, said that he thought the maximum speed of your car should be better and that flat out one has a job to get more than 72 m.p.h., and he considers one should get 80. This car will be returning to you at the conclusion of its work with Cockshoots, as we shall then have finished with it. It has been most useful, and helped us out with a lot of trials work. It would be interesting if you could tell us in due course about the speed of your car, as if Mr.Clark is wrong I should like to inform him, and if he is right maybe there is something to account for its apparent lack of speed. [Handwritten] WYMAN - Is this speedometer correct? - Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} dws By Brooklands figures the car should do more Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||