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).
Page two of a letter from Ernest G. Kleinwort comparing the braking performance of a Packard car to a Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\4\ scan0069 | |
| Date | 31th May 1937 guessed | |
| -2- simple hydraulically operated system with self-energising brake shoes, such as I have on my Packard car. In all frankness I must tell you that throughout the 13,000 miles that I have covered in my Packard car, which incidentally is of exactly the same weight as my Bentley, I have found the brakes in every particular the superior of the two, viz. in positiveness, absence from skidding, lightness in operation, silence, immunity to flooding after washing or in exceptional conditions of wetness. This, however, is another matter upon which I intend to write to you shortly. I am Yours faithfully, (Sd) Ernest G.Kleinwort. | ||