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 Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd. discussing tyre balance guarantees and valve fitting specifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\4\ Scan001 | |
| Date | 2nd December 1911 | |
| BY APPOINTMENT [Royal Coat of Arms - DIEU ET MON DROIT, HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE] STAMP: "P" DEC TO H.M. THE KING. STAMP: RECEIVED [clock face] HANDWRITTEN: T.C. 93 The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd. (REGISTERED OFFICES: 150 & 152, CLERKENWELL ROAD, LONDON, E.C.) Telegrams: "PNEUMATICUS, LONDON" Telephone No GERRARD 5812 (SIX LINES) A.B.C. Code 5th Edition Lieber Code. YOUR REF. OUR REF. CGT 14, Regent Street, London, S.W. Decr 2nd 1911. Dict. 1st inst. STAMP: WROTE... RECEIVED 4-DEC. 1911 STAMP: ANSWERED 4-DEC. 1911 Wm. Cowen Esq. c/o Rolls Royce Ltd 14, Conduit Street, W. Dear Mr. Cowen, With reference to my call upon you this morning re your request of November 27th. I beg to confirm, as I told you this morning, that my Company were not in a position to guarantee the balance of our tyres to a certain number of ounces, as suggested by you, and that we considered we were more accurate in this respect than any other Tyre Maker. So far as fitting the valve on the opposite side of the tube to the join, we might be prepared to do this, but my Company would not care to do so, except it was absolutely insisted upon by yourselves, because there are certain objections to same. As, for instance, in the case where a new valve has to be fitted it becomes necessary to fit a new valve seating, and it would be very difficult to do this, where the valve is so far away from the join, but if you insisted upon this, we should have to have a specification | ||