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 from clutch manufacturer Borg & Beck discussing mechanical servo application, a demonstration of an automatic clutch, and tests on a Bentley chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 129\2\ scan0060 | |
| Date | 24th June 1935 | |
| X/1110 Telegrams BORGANBECK, LEAMINGTON SPA. Telephone LEAMINGTON SPA 1550-1. BORG & BECK COMPANY LTD MANUFACTURERS OF CLUTCHES. Registered Office BROOK HOUSE, LANGHAM STREET, LONDON, W. 1. WORKS: Tachbrook Road, LEAMINGTON SPA, Warwickshire. Directors E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} B. BOUGHTON. W. EMMOTT. D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} T. BROCK. Your Ref Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}4/KW Our Ref TS/HTB/EA 24th June, 1935. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Attention: Mr. S. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Grylls. Dear Sirs, We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 19th inst., together with pedal layout Drawings Nos. F.8685, Sheets 1 and 2, enclosed therewith which we feel will enable us to investigate the proposed application of mechanical servo to your existing clutch pedal mechanism - we will not hesitate to communicate with you further should we require additional drawings. With regard to your request for a demonstration at your Works of Morris car fitted with automatic clutch control, the writer will be pleased to arrange this to your convenience which we understand will be in approximately ten days' time. At the same time we would ask you to give us a day or two's notice if this is at all possible. In connection with the 10.A3 clutch as applied to your Bentley chassis we would thank you for the opportunity accorded on Friday last of trying out your experimental car, and feel from the short preliminary tests made that this should make a good application and there would appear to be every indication that the clutch will definitely meet your requirements. We shall naturally be pleased to hear from you further in due course as and when you have had an opportunity of giving the clutch further tests. Yours faithfully, BORG & BECK COMPANY LIMITED H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} T. Barker. | ||