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).
Order for a new type of tyre ('90-R') for the 20/25 HP model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 157\1\ scan0267 | |
| Date | 19th December 1935 | |
| W/S - Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} X1332 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}7/KW.19.12.35. Tyres on 20/25 HP. Replying to Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}20/KW.13.12.35, will you please pass an orderto Dunlops for the whole 15 tyres. For purposes of reference the new type of tyre is referred to as '90-R'. If you order such tyres from Dunlops they will know what they are. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||