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).
Request to obtain a set of Dunlop wire wheels with demountable rims and straight-sided tyres for testing and approval.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\1\ scan0051 | |
| Date | 2nd October 1928 | |
| Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} JFF X3725 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG2.10.20. X3725 RE DUNLOP WIRE WHEELS WITH DEMOUNTABLE RIMS. Before we send out a standardisation sheet for Dunlop wire wheels with demountable rims and straight-sided tyres, we should like to send a set of these wheels and tyres to London so that they could be tested and approved of by Sales Dept. Will you please let us know what prospects there are of obtaining from Messrs. Dunlop a set of wheels and straight-sided tyres for this test. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} RECEIVED OCT 2 1928 | ||