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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).
Continuation of a letter from Rapson Tyre & Jack Works inviting a comparative test of their low-pressure tyres.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 39\1\  Scan037
Date  3rd January 1922 guessed
  
RAPSON TYRE & JACK WORKS.

CONTINUATION SHEET No. 1

E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} W. Hives Esq., Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd.,

gave no trouble of any description. This notwithstanding the fact that they were so full of thorns that they resembled hedge-hogs.

In conclusion might I bring to your notice the statement made by the Managing Director of Messrs. Barker & Co Ltd. the firm chiefly responsible for the fitting of bodies to your chassis, for many years. I think Mr. Nutt should know better than most people, what the Rolls Royce suspension really is. I told your Mr. Northey personally that ordinary pneumatics inflated to excessive pressures, do not give your suspension anything like a fair chance of shewing what it actually can do when passing over bad surfaces. The difference between riding on your demonstration car fitted with ordinary pneumatics, and riding on my own car fitted with our low-pressure Rapsons, is really amazing.

I specially invite you, if you have a device for testing the shock-absorbing qualities of tyres, to make a comparative test between a Rapson at our recommended pressures, and any ordinary pneumatic you care to put up against it, and I am sure you will see there is a tremendous difference.

Yours truly,
RAPSON TYRE AND JACK WORKS,

F.{Mr Friese} Lionel Rapson

Proprietor.
  
  


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