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 for an opinion and mileage data on new type 550 x 18 tyres.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\3\ scan0319 | |
| Date | 30th May 1935 | |
| G.W. Hancock, Esq., Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. X 20a Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}16/KW.30.5.35. We are interested in the behaviour of the new type 550 x 18 tyres which you have been running. I shall be glad if you will let me have your opinion of these, together with the mileage. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||