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 Rubber Co. Ltd. concerning the development and delivery of experimental tyres.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 45\2\ Scan243 | |
| Date | 8th March 1930 | |
| y 4050 DUNLOP RUBBER CO.,LTD. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: 'DUNLOPS, PHONE, BIRMINGHAM.' TELEPHONE: BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL, 4108 P.B.E.) EXTENSION No YOUR REF. OUR REF. WB{Mr Brazier/Mr Bell}/W.9.83 FORT DUNLOP ERDINGTON BIRMINGHAM 8th March 1930. (Dict.7th) Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Experimental Dept., DERBY. For attention of Mr. Robotham. Dear Sirs, With regard to your letter of the 22nd inst. (ref.Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/MJ), please accept our apologies for a little delay in replying. We have been expecting to have information as the result of the continuous testing that has been carried out, which would enable some definite promise of delivery of experimental tyres to be made, but we are unfortunately not quite in that position at the moment. We feel that while the slight modification of the Silent pattern which you tried when you were here last, is technically good, it is not a design which we could well contemplate adopting at the moment. We are sanguine, however, that we shall very shortly be able to let you have for trial a set of tyres of a modified design which will not only be satisfactory from your point of view, but would be such as would be practicable for us to adopt. We will, therefore, advise you again in the course of a week or two. Yours faithfully, for DUNLOP RUBBER CO.LTD., W.Bond. Development Manager. | ||