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).
Letter from the Rover Company Ltd concerning revisions to brake designs and materials.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\3\ scan0251 | |
| Date | 9th July 1938 | |
| 1091. TELEPHONE: No 8081 (7 Lines) ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY AND NOT TO INDIVIDUALS London Service Depot. SEAGRAVE ROAD . FULHAM . LONDON . S.W.6. Contractors to THE ROVER COMPANY LTD H.M. Government. TELEGRAMS: ROVER, COVENTRY. B C M / ROVER. CODES: A.{Mr Adams} B. C. 5TH EDITION LIEBERS . MARCONI MOTOR TRADE . BENTLEY THE ROVER COMPANY LTD Our Ref MCW/JM.{Mr Morley} NEW . METEOR . WORKS: COVENTRY Your Ref 9th. July, 1938. W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Robotham, BRAKES. As a result of our findings in making and fitting the Brakes you saw and tried when you were here, we are revising, and we think improving the set-up in one or two respects. New drawings will not be available for a week or two and I will send them along as soon as they are ready, in the meantime, it would help us to know if you are prepared to use cast shoes (malleable or aluminium). We do not like them, but we have an idea that you have always used cast shoes. They certainly make these Brakes easier to make experimentally. Yours, M C Wilks. | ||