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Blueprint for a Dunlop Type 72R wire wheel.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 159\1\  scan0390
Date  5th November 1938
  
TITLE BLOCK:
Dunlop Rim & Wheel Co Ltd
Foleshill,
Coventry
Customer ROLLS ROYCE
Print Ref.
Design No
Drawn: H.G. Richards
Checked: [Illegible Signature]
Date: 5TH NOV 1938
Scale: FULL SIZE

MAIN TITLE:
DUNLOP TYPE 72R WIRE WHEEL.
CODE X 432 A. {Mr Adams}

ANNOTATIONS & DIMENSIONS:
CDS 1488.
3 BALANCE UNITS SPACED AS SHOWN
5.50-16 RIM.
BASE BLOCK RR 0149
CHAMFERED AS SHOWN.
22 FRONT SPOKES
13/64" 7G. SINGLE BUTTED
SP {Mr Spinney} 288
44 REAR SPOKES
13/64" 7G. SINGLE BUTTED
SP {Mr Spinney} 288
17/64"
13/64"
5/64"
45°
1/8"
.772"
.550"
1.047"
.312"
.562"
1.062"
1.816"
2.335"
30°
130 10/11"
32 8/11°
18°
14 8/11°
9°
6 9/11°
9 6/11°
3 9/11°
8 2/11°
5 22/32"
76 11/16"
69 13/16"
16 3/16"
8 5/11"
  
  
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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