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 Rapson Tyre & Jack Company to E.W. Hines regarding tyre performance and a trial.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 39\1\ Scan116 | |
| Date | 18th June 1924 guessed | |
| RAPSON TYRE & JACK COMPANY, Ltd. CONTINUATION SHEET No. 1. E.W.Hines.Esq., the part of our Manager, who should have seen that these were parted after the insertion and you can accept my assurance that I am taking the matter up with the gentleman concerned. With regard to the comfort in running. As I explained previously in connection with your trial on the 20 H.P. model, the pressures of Rapson tyres should have been lower than those of the Dunlop's. With regard to the hard tread. Our experience is that a soft tread wears very quickly and cuts more easily than a hard tread and I think you will find if you examine the various leading makes manufactured throughout the world that the hardness of the treads are all round about the same as that of the Rapson tyres supplied for your trials. I am dictating this letter from my bed, having just undergone a serious operation and therefore, cannot get to the factory to attend to things personally, but the moment I am well, I intend to take up this question of the 33 x 5 tyres for test on your car and supply you with a further set, as I am naturally dissatisfied with what has occurred during your present trial. Would you be good enough to let me know what mileage has been obtained from similar sized tyres during equivalent trials of other makes on the same car and oblige, Yours truly, RAPSON TYRE AND JACK COMPANY, LIMITED., F.{Mr Friese} Lionel Rapson. Managing Director. This letter was dictated by Mr. Rapson. | ||