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).
Instruction to modify the mud excluder to fix oil leaking on the front brakes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\1\ scan0189 | |
| Date | 21th August 1936 | |
| BY/TWD.{T. W. D???Aeith} c. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} c. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. HA x206 BY.3/G.21.8.36. R MARTINDALE OIL LEAKING ON THE FRONT BRAKES. O.K? Working from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}'s memo from Chateauroux dated 6.7.36, I wish you to instruct a piece of sheet steel to be rivetted and sweated to the mud excluder in the manner indicated on Mr. Scholes' sketch. This modification will have to be introduced on all the cars as they become available for repair work. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||