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The preparation and manufacture of various brake system components for testing.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 12\5\  05-page105
Date  1st April 1929
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4/LG24. 4. 29.

(1) Will you please prepare to send out to GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} one complete set of Ferobestos brake linings, preferably mounted on the brake straps.

Also one pedal countershaft lever G.76811 with a length 1.375".

(2) We also require 6 pairs. of levers G.76646 altered in free length from 1.750" to 2.188".

Also we wish to have available servo cams of 35° and 40° for the S.S. car as well as the 30° and 45° of which we already have a supply.

Will you therefore please make two pairs of 35° cams to the attached sketch and two pairs of 40° cams also. We should like to have all these bits to try as soon as possible.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn. {Mr Robinson}
  
  
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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