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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).
Suggesting a method to check for unnecessary friction in the four-wheel brake mechanism.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 73\2\  scan0110
Date  27th November 1923
  
To HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}

X9940

DAL/M27.11.23.

RE. FOUR WHEEL BRAKES. X.1559.
X.9940.

We think that if you could measure the pull in the vertical rod between the last axle lever and the lever on the brake shoe it would be an indication whether there is any unnecessary friction in the mechanism which is causing us to lose any considerable proportion of our pressure.

DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}
  
  


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