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).
Visit from a Dunlop Director regarding the production and supply of straight-sided tyres and wire wheels.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\5\ Scan010 | |
| Date | 26th April 1920 | |
| R.R. 735 A (100 T) (N.F. 846 6-S-19) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2400 X 3895 R.{Sir Henry Royce} from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to EW. c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} EFC BYS/H26.4.20. CHASSIS - WHEELS. RE THE QUESTION OF FITTING STRAIGHT-SIDED TYRES. X 990 X3895 Mr. Matthews, one of the Directors of the Dunlop Wheel and Rim Co. visited our Works today and informs us that he anticipates they will be able to deliver wire wheels suitable for straight-sided tyres by September of this year. He also informed us that his Company are laying themselves out seriously to the production of straight-sided tyres as for British use, maintaining an 895 x 135 size of rim, which he considers will be made in such a manner that it will correspond with the American 32 x 4½" which again is suitable for carrying 33 x 5" tyres. Mr Matthews was unable to tell us exactly when the new production would be available, but that they had actually acquired one of the old Munition Factories and that in any case we would be the first people that they would submit the new proposition to, and that further, when the new type of tyre and wire wheel are in production they will be able to at once to change over from our present type to the new type at practically a week's notice. He pointed out that any rims which they carried in stock would be quite useful to their Company, as they proposed to supply them on other car in England, and to meet the requirements of their French Company. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||