Damage to a vehicle's rear jack and brake drum discovered during a driver changeover.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 11\4\ 04-page115 | |
| Date | 20th July 1932 | |
| X7941. To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} From G.W.H. Hotel de France, Chateauroux(French test region), FRANCE. 20.7.32. 19-EX. You will observe in our daily report that the O.S. rear D.W.S. jack was knocked off during the morning's run on a secondary road. It was not noticed until the car was examined during the change-over of the drivers. It severely damaged the dust cover of the brakes, and broke a piece out of the brake drum, leaving a portion of the hand brake surface missing. G.W.H. | ||
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).