Instruction regarding the trial of a highly stressed S/N lever for B.V. front brakes on the first 50 chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\3\ scan0067 | |
| Date | 1st December 1938 | |
| 406 To By {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /NS. {Norman Scott} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} c. Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. Da {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /JD. {J. Draper - Frames} Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 15/MR.1.12.38. B.V. FRONT BRAKES. With reference to Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} 10/G.17.11.38, will you please instruct that the lever referred to shall be made in S/N for the first 50 chassis, only, as agreed. The lever is fairly highly stressed and we would like to ascertain by trial if the S/N lever is satisfactory, or if it takes a set. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} | ||
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).