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).
Dunlop's proposal to discontinue normal tyres and focus on 'Fort' tyres.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 45\2\ Scan161 | |
| Date | 12th July 1929 | |
| X4050. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} ROY{Sir Henry Royce}16/MG12.7.29 TYRES Can you now let us have a reply to our Memo ROY{Sir Henry Royce}7/MG17.6.29 re Tyres? The Dunlop Company propose to drop the manufacture of normal Tyres in the sizes we use towards the latter part of this year, and confine themselves to "Fort" Tyres only. Meantime their Representatives will be coming up shortly to see us as to the result of our Tests with their various Tyres, and other matters. ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||