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).
Complaint about a rattle in Bentley Brakes and proposing a new anti-judder scheme for trial.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\1\ scan0315 | |
Date | 9th April 1937 | |
206. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}15/JH.9.4.37. Bentley Brakes. Anti-Judder N.Scheme 4365. G.W.H. complains that this rattles. The rattle comes from the link. Herewith a scheme, Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}350 which possibly may not as a spring holds the various jaws etc. incontact with each other. Will you please make a couple of sets of parts, and fit them to 1-B-IV and B-56-BN.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} As a final scheme we should like the pins to be 7/16 and 5/16 in. dia. but this scheme should be easier to make for a try out. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/A.Martindale. | ||