From Hs. to Roy requesting a set of Goodrich tyres due to dissatisfaction with Dunlop tyre noise.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 158\1\ scan0040 | |
| Date | 14th November 1927 | |
| To Roy. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} √2679 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 5/LG14.11.27. +4050 We have been asked by Sales to try some British Goodrich tyres. We are very dissatisfied with the noise which emanates from the Dunlop. Could you please obtain for us a set of Goodrich tyres; we should like them suitable for the Dunlop well base rims, equivalent to the size of 6.75" Dunlop. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||
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).