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 dispatch of specially prepared Bentley brake shoes for E.R. Hall's Le Mans race car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90a\4\ Scan259 | |
| Date | 3rd June 1936 | |
| X 262 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} c. to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GR.{George Ratcliffe} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}5/KW.3.6.36. E.R. Hall's Car - Le Mans. Will you please arrange to send out with G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} Ratcliffe to France a complete set of 12 Bentley brake shoes, the foot brake shoes to be lined with Ferodo M.R. and the hand brake shoes with F.B.A. (standard practice). The front shoes are to have 1½" of Ferodo removed from each end of each shoe. All tipping shoes are to be set solid. This material should be sent into the despatch stores for packing with exhaust manifold and oil tank, and it is to be weighed so that this figure can appear on the Customs declaration. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/A.F.Martindale. | ||