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Test report log for Dunlop straight-sided tyres, noting mileage, routes, and vehicle status.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 45\1\  Scan135
Date  28th October 1920
  
TESTS ON DUNLOP STRAIGHT-SIDED TYRES.
Tyre pressures - 70 lbs. rear. 65 lbs. front.

Date. | Tyres fitted. | Position on car. | Total mileage. F. {Mr Friese} R. {Sir Henry Royce} | Daily miles. | Route taken. | Remarks.

25.10.20 | FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4529, FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4536, FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4522, FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4509 | N front, O front, N rear, O rear | F: 883, 883, R: 883, 883 | | | Car at Coachbuilders.

26.10.20, 27.10.20 | | | | | | Tyres not run.

28.10.20 | FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4529, FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4536, FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4522, FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} 4509 | N front, O front, N rear, O rear | F: 981, 981, R: 981, 981 | 98 | Birmingham and back. | Tyres taken off 4.EX Car (Saloon body) fitted to 2.EX Car (Cabriolet body)

| | | | | | Tyres not run after 28th.Oct.
  
  
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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