Requesting pricing for Dunlop and Rudge Whitworth wire wheels and noting a hub design issue.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\4\ scan0006 | |
| Date | 9th December 1921 | |
| X3599 To BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} c. to CJ. c. to HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} R5/M9.12.21. GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 11. WIRE WHEELS. X.3599 We received your memo. BY11/P5.12.21., but it does not give enough information to enable an opinion to be formed on Messrs. Dunlop's letter concerning the above. We want to know the price we are paying for the Dunlop wire wheels for the 40/50s, and also the price asked for the Rudge Whitworth wheels for the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)); have not these Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) wheels to be suitable for straight sided tyres. These might be inclined from the first. We are putting the Rudge Whitworth wheels on at the moment as their standard hub seems O.K. for our use, but we are a little bit disappointed, as the Rudge Whitworth hub shews the end of the thread. R. {Sir Henry Royce} R.R. 199 (2501) (SD676 19-7-17) MP180865 | ||
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).