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).
The replacement of the brake system, rear axle, and front hubs on a B.V. chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\3\ scan0097 | |
| Date | 1st May 1939 | |
| 406 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}8/MH.{M. Huckerby}1.5.39. BRAKES B.V. CHASSIS. With reference to By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}3/AW.27.4.39 and By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}1/AW.27.4.39. Will you arrange to fit these brakes to 7.B.V. This car has an obsolete brake system and it will be necessary to provide a new set of brake drums for it; one set of the drums instructed in By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}2/AW.27.4.39 will be satisfactory if ready and will complete a Ripple II brake system. The rear axle, being an obsolete fully floating type, should be replaced by the semi-floating axle off 3.B.50 or 30.G.VII, which will be free in a day or two. The front hubs will also have to be changed to suit tin wheels and the hubs off 9.B.V. (or any other hubs without angular contact bearings) will be available shortly. The various axles and hubs which are being released should on no account be scrapped. They are wanted for dynamometer and mock up jobs. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||