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).
Letter from India Tyre & Rubber Co. Ltd. concerning a discrepancy of one tyre cover fitted to Bentley cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 29\4\ Scan158 | |
| Date | 24th November 1933 | |
| Handwritten top: R.R. Will you watch the cars to see if this type can be traced) TELEPHONES: PAISLEY 4141/5. OUR REF. E/AM/MER. YOUR REF. INDIA TYRE & RUBBER COMPANY, LTD. INCHINNAN SCOTLAND TELEGRAMS: INDIAOWL, RENFREW. Handwritten next to INCHINNAN: HU62 24th., November, 1933. Messrs./ Rolls-Royce Limited, Nightingale Road, DERBY. Dear Sirs, We have to-day heard from our London Branch that on checking up further the change-overs effected on Bentley Cars it appears that although they fitted fifty-nine Covers only fifty-eight were removed. Can you account for the discrepancy in any way as the only particulars we have are contained in the copy of Lord Rothes' letter to Mr.Robotham, indicating the various cars on which Covers totalling fifty-nine were fitted. If your records show that the cars detailed required to have changed the number of Covers fitted, then one Cover has gone missing or does the possibility exist that a Spare Wheel was fitted inadvertently. We regret the trouble to which we are putting you and await your further news in due course with interest. Yours faithfully, INDIA TYRE & RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED. [Signature] Sales Department. Handwritten bottom: 27/11/33. R.H. I am afraid I cannot help. When it was decided to effect this changeover, all the 15 chassis had left the works. We knew that some of the tyres as originally fitted were of the deceased type but we had no record of how many. That it did not fall on me necessarily to follow. Changing this car required to be confirmed neither. The figures above 58 & 59 are multiples of 5. Archer says did the changeover the Indian & see people themselves. They were the ones to complain. The discrepancy was only 1. we only had 58 what to do. W.R. | ||