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Frequent tyre troubles during a trial run on Chassis 2200.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 4\2\  02-page22
Date  27th May 1913
  
Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} /EM17/L27513

Re Mr Goulding's trial run on Chassis 2200. (Z.337)

Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
27/5/13.

Mr Haldenby reports that the only explanation of the frequent tyre troubles is that the car was very heavy on the back wheels and carried 5 passengers with luggage. The body overhangs rather a lot. Also car was driven very fast all the time.
  
  
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).


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