Instruction to modify Wraith brakes to reduce squeaking by fabricating new levers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 7\7\ X 606 Brakes-page110 | |
| Date | 17th February 1938 | |
| HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 606 Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM {Anthony F. Martindale} 1/R.17.2.38. WRAITH BRAKES. We have been instructed to rig up a Wraith with less front braking, to see if it reduces the tendency to squeak. This is most easily done by making the lever Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /495 (attached). Will you please make two such levers. One is to go on the front of Mx {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} 'e car, 25.G.VI. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} | ||
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).