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).
Testing experimental steel artillery wheels with pressed fixed hubs on a 20 HP chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 53\3\ Scan204 | |
| Date | 24th August 1926 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X4586 BY4/H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} 24.8.26. 20 HP. CHASSIS. STEEL ARTILLERY WHEELS SUITABLE FOR STRAIGHT SIDED TYRES, UTILISING FIXED HUBS MADE FROM PRESSINGS. We note that it will be three months before the 20 HP. car will be sent to France for testing, so far as Experimental Dept. are concerned. We do not consider the matter is pressing enough for us to consider this item of sufficient value to run a test on its own, but if the scheme is still in existence by which one chassis from each Series would run in France for 10,000 miles, then I think a set of wheels should be fitted to that car. It would be clearly understood that this particular thing was an experiment. It would be a standard set of parts, the only difference being the method by which the inner hubs were produced initially. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||