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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).
Bar chart tracking clutch and brake complaints and their remedies over the first six months of 1939.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 131\3\  scan0047
Date  30th June 1939
  
1939
JAN, FEB, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE

CLUTCH JAGGER
A - UNIT CHANGED
B - PLATE CHANGED
C - RELINED
D - EASE SPLINES
E - RESET FINGERS
F - RESET PROP. SHAFT DAMPER
G - WORN OUT
Chart Data Jan: Total 7 (C,E,B,A)
Chart Data Feb: Total 3 (A,F,B)

BRAKE SQUEAK
A - ROUGH UP RESET
B - RELINE
C - FIERCE POLISH DRUMS
D - FRONT PULL UNEVEN
E - HAND BRAKE POOR
F - ANTI JUDDER LINKS RATTLE
G - REAR STICKS
Chart Data Jan: Total 10 (B,D). P 159
Chart Data Feb: Total 13 (B,A,C,E,G,D)

BRAKES INEFFICIENT
RELINE OR ROUGH UP SERVO
A - ROUGH UP
B - RELINE
Chart Data Jan: Total 4 (B,A)
Chart Data Feb: Total 7 (A,B)

BRAKE MECHANISM SQUEAKS
Chart Data Jan: Total 2
Chart Data Feb: Total 2

COMPLAINTS REPORTED ARE BASED ON A MILEAGE UP TO 13000
ABOVE THIS THEY ARE GENERALLY CHARGED FOR AND NOT REPORTED

G.W.H. 5
  
  


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