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).
Test results for Rudge-Whitworth wheels and the effect of their competition on Dunlop prices.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\7\ scan0129 | |
| Date | 9th September 1925 | |
| BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from ROY. {Sir Henry Royce} c. to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 4421 ROY {Sir Henry Royce} 7/MG9.9.25 Rudge-Whitworth Wheels Attached is copy of a communication from the Rudge-Whitworth Company, giving the results to date of the latest type Rudge-Whitworth Wheels fitted to Mr. Pugh's Austro-Daimler Car. Would you kindly let me have details of the experimental sets we have under observation here. I think we are agreed it is due in a large measure to the Rudge-Whitworth competition that we have secured the more favourable prices from the Dunlop Company existent today. The Prints and Photos herewith to BY, as they have only sent one of each. Will BY kindly pass on to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ROY. {Sir Henry Royce} R ENCLOSURE Nº 581 "JUSTSO" ENCLOSURES. copy of letter dated 31.8.25, (and 4 photos and 2 blue (prints to BY | ||