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).
Mr. Royce's opinion on fitting Warland rims to cars and proposing Goodyear or Firestone rims as alternatives.
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| Date | 30th March 1920 | |
| To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} c. to En. c. to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} X 3943 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LG30.3.20. X.1019. RE WARLAND RIMS. X. 3943. X. 3725. During our last visit to Mr.Royce we took with us a Dunlop wheel fitted with a Warland rim so that we could show him the points on it which are complained of. Mr. Royce's attitude was that he had always said and maintained that the Warland rim is not a thing we should fit to our cars but if customers insist on having Warland rims we could not do otherwise than fit them. At the same time making it clear that the customer must tkae full responsibility for any failure which may occur. One cannot deny the advantage of the Warland rim as a demountable rim. It does definitely overcome the labour required to fit tyres. We agree with By, that until we have an alternative demountable rim to offer customers, we cannot do much on this matter. The proposition we put to Mr. Royce was that we should be prepared to recommend either the Goodyear or the Firestone demountable rims but with these rims it is necessary to use straight sided tyres. There are now an increasing number of American cars being imported into this country which have straight sided tyres fitted as standard. We know that the tyre makers over here are taking up the question of Contd. | ||