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).
The quality and suitability of the Firestone rim for wire wheels, including potential modifications and balancing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 78\2\ scan0014 | |
| Date | 25th May 1920 | |
| Contd. -5- Oy2/G25.5.20. The Firestone is the best made rime as far as we can ascertain, and is made of carefully selected materials, which 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 counterweights. Oy. CC Mr. Belknap. M.r Nadin. Mr. Manning. | ||