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 the Dunlop Rubber Co. for a set of tyres, with an inquiry about available tread patterns.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 45\2\ Scan362 | |
| Date | 23th October 1931 | |
| Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} r4050. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}7/AD23.10.31. We wish to obtain from the Dunlop Rubber Co. a set of 6 6" tyres for 18" rims of the Fort type. The tyre is known as 30" x 6" tyre and the tread pattern we require is triple stud. Before they deliver these tyres we should like to know if they can supply them in either triple stud or the newsilent tread without specially making new moulds. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||