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).
Letter to The Gandy Belt Manufacturing Co. regarding an offer to supply and test 'Safeguard 400' quality brake linings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 141\1\ scan0246 | |
| Date | 29th January 1937 | |
| (Experimental Dept.) 1187 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM{Anthony F. Martindale}6/R 29th January, 1937. The Gandy Belt Manufacturing Co.,Ltd., SEACOMBE, Cheshire. Your Ref: P/R.1654. Dear Sirs, With reference to your letter of the 25th January, we note your offer to supply us with samples of "Safeguard 400" quality brake linings for test purposes. As we are now testing a number of brake linings on a rig; it will be convenient to test yours also, and, therefore, we enclose blueprints of the pieces we need - four pieces of each will be sufficient. Although we accept your offer of these samples, and will subject them to just the same tests as our other samples, we feel it only right to warn you that we are testing a great many specimens, and that, therefore, the chances of any one of them showing itself to be the best are naturally rather small. If you have a wear figure for your material in terms of B.H.P. hours absorbed per cubic inch worn away, we should like to know what it is. Yours faithfully, For ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. Enc: Drawings G.B.751/2. | ||