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).
Supply of tyre pumps, moving away from an obsolete Dunlop model and considering a smaller Wood-Milne alternative.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\5\ scan0068 | |
| Date | 26th November 1925 | |
| C O P Y. S/W. C/Hn{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}12/MH{M. Huckerby}26.11.25. Tyre Pumps. BY/HM{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs}3/K.21.11.25. The contents of your Memo. were considered at this morning's meeting of the C.S.C. and it was confirmed that the box supplied by the Makers is discarded when the Dunlop Pump is carried in the car. The suggestion that a supply of the old type of Dunlop pump should be made up would not help very much. In the first place some customers would get to know that the Dunlop Co. have produced a new pump and they would consider that we had supplied them with an obsolete article. As a matter of fact the owner of one of the last chassis with which you issued the old type pump was actually told by the Dunlop Company themselves that his pump was of an obsolete pattern and we had some trouble with him in consequence. We think that you will probably find yourselves able to obtain supplies of a pump of another make quite suitable for issue on our chassis and of a size which will present little or no difficulty in stowing away. For instance we have always heard the Wood-Milne pump spoken well of and we believe we are correct in saying that this is considerably smaller than the new Dunlop. C/Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||