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).
Examination and subsequent repairs carried out on a vehicle's front brakes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\1\ scan0401 | |
| Date | 12th March 1937 | |
| 2002. HOTEL DE FRANCE, CHATEAUROUX, Indre. France. 12th March 1937. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}/IMW{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux}/4/JAB. To. H.M. c.c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} AFW 6. B. IV. FRONT BRAKES. The front brakes have been examined and attended to as well as possible, and the car is now running again. Near Side Front. Both the nuts off the main pivot bolts through the heels of the shoes had come off and only small mangled fragments of them were found. No lock washers could be found. The bolt out of the trailing shoe had worked out and was lost on the road, so that this shoe was floating. The outside edge of both linings and shoes are badly chewed up by the loose nuts. The locating keys for the liner in the drum are half worn away. All the nuts holding the carrier plate on to the stub axle could be undone by the pressure of one finger on a standard 1/4" spanner. The plate is slightly bent. This brake drum had not been removed or disturbed in anyway and was exactly as received from Derby complete with the new axle. Off Side Front. The pivot bolt nuts were tight and lock washered, but the nuts holding the carrier plate were none too tight. This side has been run with the original aluminium drum off the Girling axle. When this was fitted, it rang true when tapped on the liner. It now sounds completely loose and will not ring at all. We have therefore fitted the new drum sent out on the axle. Shall we return the faulty one or keep it and bring it back when the car returns ? ----------- Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} Ivan. Waller. | ||