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).
Letter to Ferodo Ltd. discussing brake lining fading, squeaking at 300°C, and requesting further data.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 141\2\ scan0340 | |
Date | 4th November 1940 | |
1180 EXPERIMENTAL DEPARTMENT. Rn{Mr Robinson}/MHR{M. H. Rigby}4/ET. 4th November, 1940. Messrs. Ferodo Ltd., Chapel-en-le-Frith, S T O C K P O R T. For the attention of Mr.W.E. Shilton. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter of 28th September 1940, which proved very interesting. We find, on looking back on it, that you consider a temperature of 300° C. to be harmless to your brake linings. Our experience with B2 and RU linings on leading and trailing shoes respectively, is that fading is bad at this temperature and such treatment is followed by squeaking. It may be that our methods of temperature measurement are different. However we should be very grateful for figures referring to this fading for a variety of linings, and also a similar set of temperatures for actual burning out. Yours faithfully, | ||