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).
Testing of new brakes against a Hispano-Suiza car and planning a road test in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 73\2\ scan0165 | |
| Date | 28th December 1923 | |
| To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from CJ. BRAKES. X9940 CJ6/E28.12.23. X.4214 X.9940 X.9680. Referring to your secret memo. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/LG20.12.23., please let me know when you have the Hispano running again with its brakes and we will them ask PN.{Mr Northey} to go to Derby to try the Hispano and to try the RR. with the latest RR. brakes. We quite understand that the first brakes to be fitted to the existing 40/50 HP. chassis will have limitations but we cannot say whether the limitations should be overlooked and the chassis delivered to the public with such brakes until suitable tests have been made. If PN.{Mr Northey} is able to drive a car having the new engine on it and the new brakes to the south of France, he will have an opportunity of ascertaining how the brakes behave on some of the hills such as those around Grenoble. CJ. | ||