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).
Letter from the India Tyre & Rubber Company regarding the manufacture and testing of tyres for the Rolls-Royce Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 29\4\ Scan131 | |
| Date | 23th August 1933 | |
| X4462. INDIA TYRE & RUBBER COMPANY (GREAT BRITAIN) LTD. TELEPHONES PAISLEY 4141/5. TELEGRAMS INDIAOWL, RENFREW INCHINNAN SCOTLAND OUR REF HSC/JT YOUR REF Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/MA 23rd August 1933. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. For attention of W.A. Robotham Esq. Dear Sirs, Many thanks for your letter of the 21st inst. In view of your remarks we are arranging to cut the moulds necessary for the manufacture of the Tyres required for the equipment of the Rolls-Royce Bentley to the same pattern as that which has been already approved by you. We are acting on your suggestion to send a set of test Tyres of the slightly modified design to France so that, in due course, these may be run out and the results compared with those given by the Tyre which you have already approved. Yours faithfully, INDIA TYRE & RUBBER CO. (GREAT BRITAIN) LTD. General Sales Manager. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||