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).
Urgent request to manufacture and destructively test six front brake operating links made from Nickel Steel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\4\ scan0351 | |
| Date | 19th August 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} 306 J Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}17/AP.19.8.37 PH.III. FRONT BRAKES. Will you please make six operating links G.84925 in 3½% Nickel Steel, as soon as possible. We want to have these heat treated to given Brinell figures of 600, 500, 400, 300, one by one, to see which we can break. The job is very urgent. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||