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).
Use of security bolts and bolt valves to prevent tyres coming off the rims.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 53\1\ Scan129 | |
| Date | 21th August 1923 | |
| X45246 [redacted] c. to WBr. c. to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 1/H21.8.23. re. Security Bolts and Bolt Valves. With further reference to the above, you will have seen my further memo to Sales Department, reference EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 7/H20.8.23, which is in reply to Sales memo. H2/TB17.8.23 (copy attached for BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} and Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ) We shall be glad if you can please arrange to put this matter further before Messrs. Dunlop in view of Sales Department's attitude on this matter. In the meantime, as you will see I have asked for a summary of the cases which have come to the notice of Sales Department of tyres coming off the rims in cases where security bolts and bolt valves have not been used. EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} MAKE A CHRONO COPY | ||