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).
Request to Dunlop to manufacture specific tyres for testing and an agreement to supply steel wheels.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 157\3\ scan0042 | |
| Date | 14th April 1939 | |
| 1382 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} c. G/JWH. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}4/MH.{M. Huckerby}14.4.39. Whilst Mr. Price of Dunlops was here to-day we asked him to make the following tyres up for test:- 12 - 7 x 16 4-ply with 'Rayon' fabric. 12 - 6½x 16 4-ply with 'Rayon' fabric. 12 - 700 x 16 W.R. 12 - 8.0 x 16 'Stabilia'. We also agreed to send Dunlops five steel wheels on which they will fit new 6" rims. O/N. 52444. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||