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Request to alter the rib position on new front brake drums for a Bentley to prevent water ingress.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 84\2\  scan0170
Date  18th July 1934
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 6/KW.18.7.34.

Water in Bentley Front Brakes.

You are making for us a pair of front drums with deeper ribs. As these have not yet been machined will you please alter the position of the ribs as shown on the attached Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 1467 so that we can at the same time try another scheme for preventing water getting in the brake drums.

We should like to fit this to 3-B-IV as soon as possible.

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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