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).
Dispatch of new Silent Tread Tyres with improved non-skidding properties for testing and feedback.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65\2\ scan0323 | |
| Date | 17th June 1930 | |
| PN.{Mr Northey} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to C. Y78-0 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/MJ.17.6.30. Xu550 We are sending you today, four of the first type of Silent Tread Tyre with the improved non-skidding properties. We have another type of modification which we are at present testing out which looks rather more impressing than the set we are sending to you, but in consequence will be slightly more noisy. We shall be glad to hear Sales opinion of these tyres in due course. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||