{"id":499416,"date":"2021-09-24T15:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=123738"},"modified":"2024-10-30T02:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:20:42","slug":"rolls-royce-silver-ghost-re-enacts-triumphant-london-edinburgh-run-110-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/rolls-royce-silver-ghost-re-enacts-triumphant-london-edinburgh-run-110-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Re-Enacts Triumphant London-Edinburgh Run 110 Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"

History literally repeated itself recently, as Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 1701 re-enacted its astonishing run in the 1911 London-Edinburgh Trial.<\/p>\n

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The car, designed as an ‘Experimental Speed Car’, won the original event locked in top gear for the entire 799-mile return trip between the two capitals. Given the primitive state of Britain’s Edwardian roads, its average speed of 19.59 mph was highly impressive \u2013 and its then unheard\u2011of fuel efficiency of over 24 mpg even more so. To prove that the car had not been modified in any way, it achieved 78.2 mph on a half-mile speed test conducted immediately after the Trial; it also became the first Rolls-Royce to exceed 100 mph in a later test at the fabled Brooklands circuit in Surrey.<\/p>\n