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Requesting an order for 6 sets of experimental Ferodo brake shoe material from Messrs. Herbert Frood.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 26\4\  Scan067
Date  21th March 1919
  
R R. {Sir Henry Royce} 235 a (100 T) (S.E. 527. 21-2-18) G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2199

Mr Clough from BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
c. EH.
c. EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}

March 21. 1919.
BY7-P21319.

X.3518
REAR HUB AND BRAKE.
RE BRAKE LINING.

Will you kindly take out an experimental number and order up 6 sets of Ferodo Brake Shoes in Messrs.Herbert Frood's number 9 material for brake segments.

In ordering up the material we should specify that it should be supplied without wire in its construction.

The number 9 material in question is a specially treated die pressed material, non impregnated.

BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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