The Smallest Rolls-Royce Gets Its First Service

Unveiled last year, the Rolls-Royce SRH recently returned to the Home of Rolls-Royce for its first service.

Known as the world’s smallest Rolls-Royce, the SRH was specially created for the St Richard’s Hospital Pediatric Day Surgery Unit. The hand-built mini car allows children who are awaiting surgery to drive themselves to the operating room, through the pediatric unit corridors which are now lined with traffic signs. The hospital says the experience of driving to the operating room has proved to reduce child patient stress.

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Twelve months after Rolls-Royce first delivered the SRH to the hospital, it returned for its first year’s service. Technicians at Rolls-Royce’s Analysis Center gave the mini car a clean bill of health, with it having performed faultlessly over the past year. The company said an average of one child per day has driven the Rolls-Royce SRH to the operating room.

“We’ve received fantastic feedback from families who’ve expressed how excited their children have been at the prospect of coming onto the Day Surgery unit to drive our mini Rolls-Royce motor car,” said Sue Nicholls, pediatric matron at St Richard’s Hospital. “Rather than being anxious about their upcoming procedure, our young patients are positively distracted by the fun experience of negotiating the corridors to theatre in a car they can drive all by themselves. We’ve also noticed that Dads especially love to admire the engineering and design specification and often ask for a turn! The whole experience of being in hospital for those children, and their loved ones, is enhanced by having the opportunity to drive such a special car.”

In the image supplied by Rolls-Royce, three of the automaker’s technicians can be seen servicing the SRH children’s car. In the background, though, is a test prototype for the automaker’s upcoming SUV – the Cullinan. This is our best look at the SUV apart from spy photos, but you wouldn’t be faulted for glancing over it as it sits in the background.

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