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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).
Query to the Rudge-Whitworth Company about wheels exhibited at the Olympia Show.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 159\7\  scan0111
Date  25th April 1924
  
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from ROY. {Sir Henry Royce}
c. to BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
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ROY {Sir Henry Royce} 11/MG25.4.24.
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You were asking if the Rudge-Whitworth Company were in a position to put forward Wheels similar to the sample exhibited at the last Olympia Show.

Attached is copy of their reply to our queries. Also copy of their Officials' Report on the wheels attached to the 20 HP. Car which Mr. Maddox drove over to Coventry recently.

ROY. {Sir Henry Royce} ps

P.S. Will Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} kindly show prints to BY, as the Rudge Whitworth Company have only sent one copy.

ENCLOSURES. Report re Wheels exhibited at Olympia.
Officials' Report on experimental 20 HP. Wheels.
Prints. 7116 x 1 and 7156 x 1

ENCLOSURE No 189 "JUSTSO"
ENCLOSURE No 190 "JUSTSO"

Prints + Letter sent to DA {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} 29/4/24
  
  


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