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).
Clarifying a previous communication regarding tyre pressures for open and closed body cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan324 | |
| Date | 22th August 1925 | |
| To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. Copy to By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} X457 STEERING. With reference to your memo. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/LG21.8.25, my memorandum to CJ. was written at a time when I was under the impression, from a conversation I had had with By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}, that all cars in France had a tyre pressure of over 50 lbs., and that one of the cars used in France had an open body. As the Instruction Book refers to 45 lbs. for open bodies, i assumed that the tests had been made with tyre pressure other than recommended to customers. I explained on the telephone to C.J. the next morning (the morning he received my memorandum) that this paragraph was incorrectly worded, as I believed the 50 lbs. pressure on cars tested in France only referred to closed cars. I should have informed you after my conversation with CJ., but had forgotten for the moment that a copy of my memorandum to CJ. had been sent to you. B.J. (Dictated but not read by Mr. Johnson). | ||