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).
The British and Continental car manufacturers using Rudge-Whitworth type wheels.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\7\ scan0144 | |
| Date | 23th May 1933 | |
| To Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} , from ROY. {Sir Henry Royce} X421 Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} DY. {F R Danby} E.H. ROY {Sir Henry Royce} 5/MG23.5.33 ----------------- Mr. F.G. Woollard, Managing Director of the Rudge-Whitworth Company Ltd, was here last week, when the question of Rudge-Whitworth wheels for the Bentley Car was fully discussed, with the Experimental Department, Drawing Office etc. Amongst other points, Mr. Woollard stated his firm was supplying the Rudge-Whitworth type wheel to the following British firms:- Models Aston Martin ............ AX1 Clement Talbot ........ All for 1933/34 Crossley .............. Two Frazer Nash ........... All Hillmann .............. Sports Invicta ............... All Lagonda ............... All M.G ................... All Riley ................. Alpine Rover ................. Sports Singer ................ Sports Standard .............. Sports Sunbeam ............... Two whilst on the Continent, various Continental companies are manufacturing same for the foreign cars in question under licence, i.e., Alfa Romeo ............ All Ansaldo ............... All Amilcar ............... All Austro Daimler ........ All Bugatti ............... Chiefly Cadillac .............. All (Strikethrough) Chenard Walcker ....... All Darracq ............... Chiefly Delage ................ Chiefly Hispano Suize ......... All Hotchkiss ............. Chiefly Isotta Fraschini .... All Itala ................. Chiefly Lancia ................ All Mathis ................ All Maybach ............... All Mercedes Benz ....... All Minerva ............... All O.M. .................. All Peugeot ............... Chiefly Schneider ............. All Stutz ................. All Tatia ................. All Voisin ................ All ROY. {Sir Henry Royce} | ||