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Extract detailing tyre tests and the development of a new single-piece aluminium alloy wheel.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 53\2\  Scan012
Date  9th May 1923 guessed
  
Extract.
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105 Canvas tyre at 55 lbs. axle raised 1.1/8
105 Cord " " 45 " " 11/16
6" L.P " " 20 " " 1/16.
My tyre in this case does not leave the ground at all.
(m) You can't pull it off or damage it running a long way deflated.
On my own car I've got an entirely new kind of wheel cast in one piece of Aluminium Alloy.
No base plate.
No bent cap.
A turned, true running and perfectly balanced wheel.
A beautiful wheel too.
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[Faint watermark text]
1904
MADE AT CRAWLEY
  
  
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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