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Modifications to Michelin disc wheels to make them practicable.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 45\1\  Scan015
Date  8th May 1920
  
X 4050

To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}
Copy to CJ.
R2/G8.5.20.

X. 3482.
X. 4050. RE MICHELIN DISC WHEELS.

With reference to Michelin Dsic Wheels, the question of the security bolts we ought to easily get over by drilling existing Michelin wheels. I agree to turning off the last of the ribs of the brake drum to make this practicable.
As I have written to Mr. Johnson, I think we ought to persevere with the disc wheels in case the customers demand them. There ought to be no difficulty in getting rims rivetted to a disc wheel suitable for a straight-sided tyre.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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