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).
Comparative tyre tests and the potential need to find an alternative supplier to Dunlop.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 45\2\ Scan162 | |
| Date | 17th July 1929 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} C. to By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} X4050 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/MJ.17.7.29. X.4050 X.1439 TYRES. Rn.{Mr Robinson} is at present in France making comparative tests with various sized tyres. We have had a preliminary report, which indicates that we shall not wish to alter from the present 6.75 dia. We think you should communicate this with Dunlops and suggest that they fix up an appointment to come over here, because if they are to stop making the sizes we require then we have no alternative but to go elsewhere. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||