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In the end, Rolls-Royce made a virtue of the feature by successfully promoting the 3 1/2 as the Silent Sports Car.
In addition to returning to car design and development, it meant liberation from the politics and anxieties of Rolls-Royce. He afterwards recalled that he felt 'quite light-headed with the sense of freedom'.