Explaining the inability to carry out a test on wire wheels due to a lack of parts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 4\9\ 09-page300 | |
| Date | 17th May 1927 | |
| To "H.S.-M.M." From "G.W.H." X58406 125, Avenue de Malakoff. May, 17th 1927. 10 - G - 111 We have received your wires: TEST WIRE WHEELS ON FRONT AXLE TO SEE IF STEERING IMPROVED AT ALL AT HIGH SPEEDS . . ROBOTHAM. DRUMS REQUIRE CHANGING TO GET WHEELS ON. ROBOTHAM. Having no wire wheels nor drums at Chateauroux(French test region), we endeavoured to carry out the modification and test in PARIS. Unfortunately, the Paris Depot having no wire wheels nor drums and we being obliged to get to DIEPPE by tomorrow; we are in the impossibility to carry out the test you require. D.W.HANCOCK. | ||
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).