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 to The India Tyre & Rubber Co. Ltd. concerning the testing and standardisation of tyres.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 29\4\ Scan130 | |
| Date | 21th August 1933 | |
| x v 462. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/MA. August 21st., 1933. The India Tyre & Rubber Co.Ltd., Inchinnan, Scotland. Dear Sirs, Thank you for your letter of the 11th. August we regret the delay in answering but the Works have been closed for the Annual Holiday. With reference to your new tyre. If you care to send a set of these to France there is no reason why they should not be run. We cannot however, promise to make the test immediately, but will do so as opportunity occurs. The point is that to get an average result from the original tyres you gave us, and which we are proposing to standardise, we must run at least three sets which means 12,000 miles or so, in France. Until we have finished this mileage we do not feel justified in beginning another series of experiments. If in the interval at any time we find anything unsatisfactory about the original tyre the position of course will be altered. Therefore if you must make a number of moulds we see no alternative but for you to adhere to the original design. With regard to the complaint of lack of flexibility we cannot say that this has altogether been substantiated in our recent tests, and therefore is not worrying us at present. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS ROYCE LIMITED. | ||