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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 unsuitability of 'T' type Tenoid Brake Linings due to squeaking, leading to an order cancellation.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 26\4\  Scan335
Date  11th May 1927
  
To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson}
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Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn{Mr Robinson}3/LG11.5.27.

On continuing our tests on Tenoid Brake Linings, we find that type 'T' is quite unsuitable because the car upon which this was fitted started to squeak badly.

We therefore do not require the pieces which we have ordered of this material.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson}
  
  


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