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Continued note on tyre performance relating non-skid treads and tyre section to wheel wobble.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 53\2\  Scan289
Date  19th November 1926 guessed
  
CONTD :- -2-

front brakes are applied violently with the steering on a lock.

In our experience very good non-skid treads are bad for wobbles, also we find 6.75" section to be much more satisfactory than 6" section, both tyres having the same number of plies.



Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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).


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