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 from Humber Limited regarding patent inquiries for wheel discs, also mentioning Cornercroft and Talbot.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\2\ scan0069 | |
| Date | 16th September 1938 | |
| 1069 BY APPOINTMENT TO THE LATE KING GEORGE V.{VIENNA} CYCLE MANUFACTURERS TELEGRAMS & CABLES HUMBER, COVENTRY TELEPHONE:- 5041 HUMBER LIMITED COVENTRY LONDON SERVICE STATION CHASE ROAD WILLESDEN, N.W.10 IN REPLY KINDLY QUOTE: RCH/G 16th September, 1938. G.H.Grylls, Esq., Rolls-Royce, Ltd., D E R B Y. Dear Grylls, In reply to your letter of the 14th instant, from enquiries I have made, we hold no Patents in regard to the fixing of outer discs on a pressed steel wheel and apparently (this is confidential) Talbot are not too enamoured with the idea of the hand-operated nut as they have had some trouble with these coming loose. In regard to Cornercroft Patents I understand that they have protected some designs of wheel discs, but the only actual Patent of which I am aware is one in regard to connections through the discs for blowing up the tyres, the number being 427149. On the discs they supply to us they very carefully state -'Ace Patented Disc' but the only number given on another part of the disc is Registered No. 748,295 which is obviously some sort of a registered design and not an actual Patent. I propose to send on to you in the course of a few days a pair of Speedometer Gears for your Talbot Ten which will give you considerably more accurate readings than the pair fitted as standard. I am sorry if the information I have given you is not very helpful, but it is the best I can do. Yours sincerely, [Signature] | ||