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).
Potential cure for front brake squeaks on the Phantom II, proposing to test it on Trials and Inspectors' cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 12\5\ 05-page212 | |
| Date | 25th August 1930 | |
| C. From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} C. to PN.{Mr Northey} J 7420 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson}3/WJ.25.8.30. FRONT BRAKE SQUEAKS. PII As you know, squeaking brakes are one of our most persistent troubles. We have in hand a potential cure. We want to utilise Trials and Inspectors' cars to try out this cure. To fit it will mean changing over the front brake shoes of the car to be used, and should not take more than an hour or two. We particularly want to use a Trials or Inspector's car because the only way to get results is to leave the brakes undisturbed under normal usage, and this condition we never get on our Experimental cars which are always being dismantled. Will you please say, what cars you think we could fit our modification on. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} | ||