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).
Correspondence and business dealings with Industrial Rubber Products Limited concerning tires and discounts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 53\1\ Scan011 | |
| Date | 13th February 1922 | |
| H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} c. To Hr. ( for W ) re Tires and the Industrial Rubber Products Limited. ---:--- Please read the two xxx attached letters from Mr. Cooper, one of the Directors of the above-mentioned Company, and thereafter bring same to the notice of whomsoever you think it concerns. On receiving the letter dated Feb. 7, I wrote to Mr. Cooper and asked him to inform me on two further points, i.e. discounts and pressures etc. You will see these points are dealt with in his later letter, dated Feb. 10. The letters explain themselves, so it is not necessary for me to say more than perhaps to add a word on behalf of two of the Directors of this firm - or I should say of Grimston's, as it was owing to their association with the latter firm-that we first met. Grimston's was one of the firms with which I had to deal when at the Ministry, and I always found them a very straight firm to deal with. At that time my dealings were mostly with Lord Grimston, but later he introduced me to Mr. Cooper, of whom I formed also a high opinion. "Industrial Rubber Products Limited" were formed I believe with a view to [illegible] facilitating the sale of goods other than those produced at the A St. {Capt. P. R. Strong} Alban's factory, but of course I know nothing of its financial position. I see Mr. Cooper is under the impression, when making his offer, that Dunlop's give us 36%. This however seems curious as I have always understood we only got 22% from Dunlop's. I am sending a copy of these papers to W, and propose taking them the cross-section of the cover, which I have been sent, for inspection, when I got to fetch 17 LW. Thereafter I could bring it up to London at the end of this month. I have not checked the figures given in Mr. Cooper's letters, but I have no doubt they are accurate. Cr. {Mr Cra???ster / Mr Chichester} 13.2.22. | ||