The standardisation of new '90' Dunlop tyres and their comparison to the 'Silent' tyre.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 157\1\ scan0171 | |
| Date | 7th February 1935 | |
| S/W {Sales / Derby Works} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x4050 C14/C7.2.35 Re the new '90' Dunlop Tyres. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 2/KW4.2.35 ------- We note contents of your memo. with which we agree. We think in the circumstances we must standardise these '90' type tyres; therefore the arrangements we have made with Dunlops can carry on. They will start delivering 100% of the type '90' very shortly now. We agree that their advertisements are exaggerated and I told their technical representative that this was our opinion. He agreed that the type '90' is not very much, if any, better than our special 'Silent' tyre, but it is better in all the respects they have claimed, than their ordinary standard tyre. C. | ||
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).