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).
Request to manufacture pulleys and a junction piece for a brake test apparatus.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\6\ scan0014 | |
| Date | 5th May 1937 | |
| 1325} 1315} To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}17/JH.5.5.37. Brake test Apparatus. Will you please make one pulley Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}373, six pulleys Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 374 and on junction piece Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}275, all in mild steel. They are all pieces of a recording apparatus for measuring variations in the co-efficient of friction of a brake lining. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||