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).
Requesting an urgent order of one dozen special Dunlop tyres for a 40/50 HP car for use at Brooklands Track.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 45\2\ Scan337 | |
| Date | 13th April 1931 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x4050. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}10/MJ.13.4.31. You will remember that last year the Dunlop Rubber Co., supplied us with one dozen special tyres for the 40/50 HP. car for use at high speeds on Brooklands Track. These were ordered in our Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/MJ.26.6.30. We require another one dozen tyres of exactly the same pattern. We urgently require four of these, and should be obliged if you could ask Dunlops to give us delivery with the minimum delay. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||