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Urgent internal memo requesting the latest brake linings for a car with brake squeaks.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 102\6\  scan0185
Date  19th August 1937
  
To Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /GWH {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} ,

SWH

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Kingsbury.
August 19th 1937

We have a particularly bad car coming into the Depot with brake squeaks. Is it possible to let us have a set of the latest brake linings.? Is rather urgent as the car is due here on Monday.

H.H. Preston.
BZ linings

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}
  
  
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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