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).
Two proposed schemes for the length of the brake hand lever and gear.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 32\2\ Scan006 | |
| Date | 15th February 1912 | |
| See Mr Maclure's Recent note on Mr Karlsson Sheet dated 8.2.12. Re length of brake hand lever. TBB8/L15212. Mr Bailey. 15/2/12. Will you kindly get out two schemes of brake hand lever and gear in which - 1. The hand lever is 2" shorter than our present standard and the complete brake leverage is 33 1/3 % higher than the old standard. 2. The brake hand lever to be 4" shorter than standard with a similar correction for leverage as in (1). This matter was decided in consultation with the members of the Committee | ||