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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 Dunlop Rubber Co. regarding the rapid deterioration of tyres after 4350 miles of testing.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 157\3\  scan0129
Date  30th December 1940
  
1332

30th December, 1940.

Em.1/ET.

F.G.W. King, Esq.,
Messrs. Dunlop Rubber Coy., Ltd.,
Fort Dunlop,
Erdington,
BIRMINGHAM 24.

Dear Mr. King,

We have now run those tyres which you brought up here the other day on the front wheels of one of our cars, for 4350 miles, and, though they were reasonably satisfactory to start with, they now cause the steering to joggle very noticeably.

We suggest that, should one of your lorries be in the district, it should call for these tyres so that you should examine them to see if you can discover why they have deteriorated so rapidly.

Yours sincerely,
  
  


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