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).
Letter from India Tyre & Rubber Company Ltd. regarding tyres, car performance, and servicing arrangements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 29\4\ Scan219 | |
| Date | 7th September 1934 | |
| HEAD OFFICE AND FACTORY: INCHINNAN, RENFREWSHIRE INDIA TYRE & RUBBER COMPANY LTD. MILEAGE DEPARTMENT (AREA "B") 80 CLAPHAM ROAD LONDON, S.W.9 TELEPHONES: RELIANCE 2662/3 'OUR REF. R/WBT. 'YOUR REF. 7th September, 1934. W.A. ROBOTHAM, ESQ., Experimental Department, Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Robotham, I hope you had a really good holiday; and found plenty of grouse to shoot ? I go for my holiday (for a fortnight) on Friday, September 21st, and I have been hoping that I should be able to pay a visit to Derby before I went, as I am most anxious to hear your opinion on the set of "Colonial" tyres, but I daresay you have not yet had time to really try them out. Anyhow, I am afraid that, owing to pressure of work, it won't be possible for me to visit Derby before I go, unless, of course, either you or Mr. Royce particularly want me to do so. I was delighted to read of the splendid performance Mr. E.R. Hall's Bentley put up in the Ulster T.T. It might also interest you to know that I had a letter from my brother-in-law, Capt. T.L. Dugdale, saying that he was simply delighted with his car in every way, and that he had had a splendid run to Glasgow, although he had had to stop for half an hour owing to breaking a small spring. I have not yet been able to find out from him exactly what that was, as he is at present in the Isle of Colonsay, beyond the reach of letters. As regard my own car which you so very kindly said I might send to Derby, my chauffeur will be bringing it on the morning of Saturday, September 22nd, and I will tell him to call and fetch it on Monday, October 8th, if that would be convenient. I do hope that I shall be able to have it back by then, as I shall need it on Tuesday, October 9th. You very kindly said that you would have it looked at all over, but I would like to call your attention/ | ||