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).
Customer's complaint about a Phantom III skidding on wet roads and his query about alternative tyres.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0135 | |
Date | 21th June 1937 | |
S/W. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} re- Mr.Colin Kingham -Phantom III. The above, who claims and admits to be a fussy individual where cars are concerned, said that his P.III(3-BU-70) recently delivered to him,(and which he only kept a short while because he did not like the body and is having another one built,) skidded very badly on wet roads. He found it worse than his previous car, a Phantom II, and much worse than the Packard he has just bought to carry on with until his second P.III is ready. His Packard is shod with Firestone tyres. He also asks whether we have tried the Michelin tyre which he says many people tell him are very good for anti-skidding properties. He asks whether we have tried any other make of tyre than the Dunlop which we are standardising, and whether he would be able to have some other tyre on his new car (3-CP-98) which would prevent the car from skidding. Mr.Kingham says that our car rather frightened him at times with its skidding propensities, and he wants to try and avoid it and thinks it should be avoidable since he has tried the Packard,which is so stable and which in fact he says he cannot make skid. I promised to put the matter to you and advise him further about this question in due course. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} Ruel | ||