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).
Letter from Dunlop arranging an inspection of experimental car tyres after completing 2,700 miles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 157\1\ scan0025 | |
| Date | 5th April 1932 | |
| X4050. DUNLOP RUBBER CO.,LTD. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: 'DUNLOPS.PHONE.BIRMINGHAM' TELEPHONE: BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL 4108 (P.B.E.) EXTENSION NO. 349. YOUR REF: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid{A. J. Lidsey}/1.MJ. OUR REF: LJL.MW.15. Product Design Division. FORT DUNLOP ERDINGTON BIRMINGHAM 5th. April, 1932. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., D E R B Y. Attention of - Mr.A.J.Lidsey. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter of the 1st inst. in which you indicate the tyres on your experimental cars have now completed 2,700 miles. We shall be glad of the opportunity of examining them, and we should like to send Mr.F.E.Smith of our Technical Department to Derby on Friday next, April 8th, some time after 10.30 a.m. We hope that this will be convenient for you, and we should like to thank you for your co-operation in this matter. Yours faithfully, FOR THE DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY, Ltd., L.J. Lambourn Product Design Division. | ||