ROLLS-ROYCE GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE, 1907 

 Gift of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., in 1 947 (USNM 311998) 



This nonoperable one-quarter-size model (figs. 84 

 through 87) represents the 40-50-horsepower, 6-cylinder 

 Rolls-Royce car which, in 1907, ran out a 15,000-mile re- 

 liability road trial officially observed by the Royal Auto- 

 mobile Club. At the conclusion of the trial, in which it 

 ran 14,371 miles without an involuntary stop for other 

 than tire troubles, the car was dismantled and examined. 

 All parts in which the slightest measurable wear could be 

 detected were replaced, at a cost of just over the equivalent 

 of $10. 



Figure 84. — Model of 1907 Rolls-Royce "Silver Ghost. 



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