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).
Ongoing efforts to influence tyre manufacturers on tyre pressure standards.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 39\2\ Scan155 | |
| Date | 7th November 1922 | |
| X.3538 F.R. FR Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}/Thn2/H7.11.22. re. TYRE PRESSURES. We shall be glad to know whether you are satisfied that all possible has been done with the tyre makers from the point of view of bringing them to our way of thinking in regard to tyre pressure and that it is no use persuing this matter further. We would refer you to ROY{Sir Henry Royce}'s memo reference ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/GEA12/F17.7.22, under cover of which he furnished one of Dunlops booklets re latest tyre pressures, and our reply EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}/Thn9/019.7.22, in which we pointed out that although in this booklet they agreed to reduce the tyre pressure it was still not in accordance with our wishes, and ROY{Sir Henry Royce}'s further memo ROY{Sir Henry Royce}4/W1.8.22, and you will see the position in which we stand at present. We are anxious, however, in view of R's continuous references to low tyre pressures that we should be satisfied that all possible has been done. [Stamp: RECEIVED, EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}, Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}, 1922] | ||