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).
Addition of a device to a Firestone rim to improve the safety and construction of a wire wheel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\4\ Scan139 | |
| Date | 25th June 1920 | |
| OyR - G 25620 June 25, 1920 To: Rolls-Royce Ltd. - 5 makes it not only safer but easier to build into a wire wheel. Do you not think that some device on the lines of the above (which undoubtedly they would put on for us for two or three dollars a rim) added to the Firestone rim, would make a combination about which we should have no fears? Any out of balance could be compensated by counter- weights. COPY Oy. CC Mr. Belnap Mr. Hedin Mr. Manning | ||