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 Englebert Tyres Ltd. confirming the dispatch of new tyres and tubes for testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 157\4\ scan0006 | |
| Date | 31th May 1921 | |
| X4376 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} [Stamp: RECEIVED MAY 31th 1921] TELEPHONE: MUSEUM 5367. TELEGRAMS: ENGLEMATIC, EUSROAD, LONDON ENGLEBERT TYRES LTD. 45/6, Clipstone St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} & 101/2, Bolsover St.{Capt. P. R. Strong} Gt. Portland Street, London, W.1. 31st May, 1921. REF. AM/MS. Your Ref. HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LG. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. For attention of Mr. Hines. Dear Sirs, Further to your letter of the 23rd inst., we have pleasure to inform you that we have to-day sent off to you per passenger train 5. 895 x 150 New Grooved Covers and tubes. If you only wish to have the four you can return the other one, and if you do not wish for the tubes you can return these. We thought it best to send you the complete set. We are invoicing these up to you less 30%, and shall be much obliged if you will do as you say - let us have a report every fortnight showing how these tyres are going. We wish you to put them to every possible test you can, as we have every confidence in them being something superior to what you have been using up to the present. Yours faithfully, ENGLEBERT TYRES, LIMITED. A Hucklenhamp MANAGING DIRECTOR [Tyre Illustration Text: PNEU ENGLEBERT 815 x 105] | ||