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Requesting a test drive of a car with an experimentally modified four-wheel braking ratio.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 66\5\  scan0075
Date  30th November 1926
  
S/W. {Sales / Derby Works} To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
X8420
PN {Mr Northey} 4/EH.30.11.26.
Copy to BJ.
Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
By. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
CWB.
Four Wheel Braking and Steering.
When you have a car in which the four wheel braking has been modified experimentally to the ratio of 66% rear, 33% front, I shall be glad to have an opportunity of realising what differences this change of ratio may make, from the point of view of the owner-driver.
PN. {Mr Northey}
  
  
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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