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).
Request to obtain Dunlop tyres for tests on a 12-EX car in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\1\ Scan071 | |
| Date | 20th August 1926 | |
| X3809 To Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn{Mr Robinson}2/LG20.8.26. 12-EX CAR - TYRES. X7940 We wish to obtain 2 Dunlop 6" well base traction tread tyres for 31" rims for our tests in France. If these tyres are not available in the traction tread, we wish to test 2 triple stud tread tyres of this type. We should like the tyres to be sent directly to Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France - addressed to the R-R Representative. We should be obliged if you could get in touch with Messrs. Dunlop on this subject as soon as possible as the car upon which they are to be tried will leave France in 10 days time. We have already tried to get these tyres in France; they do not appear to be made at the French Dunlop Factory. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} | ||