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 to Automotive Industries seeking clarification on 'shipping weight' and discussing tyre performance variations.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\3\ Scan015 | |
| Date | 18th January 1939 | |
| 1204 EXPERIMENTAL DEPARTMENT Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}19/JH. 18th. January, 1939. Automotive Industries, Chestnut and Fifty-Sixth Streets, Philadelphia, U.S.A. For the attention of Mr. Marcus Ainsworth. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter of Dec. 14th. and we are interested to know what 'shipping weight' usually includes. We appreciate that the difficulty we had in reconciling this weight with the 'Displacement factor' may have been due to the considerable variation in tyre performance in relation to the nominal size. We thank you for your offer to supply any further information. Yours very truly, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||