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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).
Dunlop Company's acquisition of Rudge-Whitworth's wheel building business.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 159\1\  scan0203
Date  17th May 1935
  
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To Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} from HOY.
c. to SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
c. to C.
c. to HY{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer}
c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
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ROY{Sir Henry Royce}4/MG17.5.35
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The Dunlop Company yesterday acquired control of yet another competitive firm - in this case the wheel building side of the business of the Rudge-Whitworth Company.
No details are yet available as to what their actual intentions are, but I believe they will continue the manufacture of Rudge-Whitworth Wheels at the Greet Works, and decide later whether they will concentrate such wheel building under one roof, i.e. Coventry.
HOY.
  
  


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