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. Hives regarding tyre performance at lower pressures and comparing them with Dunlops.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 39\1\ Scan053 | |
| Date | 22th December 1923 guessed | |
| RAPSON TYRE & JACK COMPANY, Ltd. CONTINUATION SHEET No. -2- E.W. Hives,Esq., and you can accept my assurance that no rolling will be experienced on corners due to the lower pressures. Further, at these pressures I particularly invite you to drive as hard as you like and as long as you like and to take particular note how, in spite of the low pressures which obviously permit increased flexing of the walls, the coolness as felt by the hand, is most pronounced. Trusting you will be good enough to let me know, after the pressures have been reduced as suggested, how the riding of the car compares with Dunlops, I beg to remain, Yours faithfully, RAPSON TYRE AND JACK COMPANY. LIMITED., F.{Mr Friese} Lionel Rapson. Managing Director. P.S. I really must congratulate you on the business-like and very clear manner in which your Daily Report Sheet is made out. - We have tyres on test with other firms and believe me, there is a vast difference between the report received from you and the others. It seems that even down to a minute detail of this description, Rolls-Royce remain Rolls-Royce and I am really proud of my old association with the same firm. FLR | ||