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).
New steel front brake shoes for the Spectre model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\4\ scan0017 | |
| Date | 4th October 1934 | |
| Xeb94 306 To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Copy to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} F.{Mr Friese} Ms. Wdy. RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}2/MN. 4/10/34. SpectreCodename for Phantom III. Front Brake Shoes. Herewith is NSCH 4214, showing the steel brake shoes for the front brakes. The shoes are rather more than twice as stiff as the existing aluminium ones. The sheet metal construction has been adopted as being lighter and more consistent than the forged type, and preferred, we understand, by the works. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||