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Brake sponge on a Spectre model, suggesting testing cast-iron shoes instead of aluminium.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 92\4\  scan0012
Date  15th September 1934
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
X4644 306
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 14/KW.15.9.34.

Spectre(Codename for Phantom III) Brakes.

We find a considerable amount of brake sponge on this car is due to deflection of the aluminium shoes. For test purposes therefore will you please put in hand similar shoes in cast-iron for the foot brakes, front and rear.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
  
  
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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