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).
Complaint about tyre mileage and providing expected mileage for various models.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0133 | |
| Date | 16th June 1937 | |
| S/W. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from C. 361 CB/D16.6.37. Re: Chassis 3-AZ-106. - Mr. H.G. Spicer. Further to my C10/D15.6.37, I enclose copy of letter we have received this morning from Mr. H.G. Spicer on this same question. This is the first complaint we have had of small mileage, although our own records on trials cars have not been extraordinarily good in this respect, but then we are naturally a bit wasteful, because we cannot afford to risk any skidding, and therefore the tyres are <S>removed</S> as soon as any signs of smoothness appears. Our experience, however, is that we are getting about 7,500 on the big Phantom III Limousine and 5,500 on the Close-Coupled, and on the Phantom II we used to get on both the big Limousine and the Close-Coupled about 7,500 <S>miles</S> to 8000. Att: 1. C. | ||