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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).
Laboratory report on the material analysis of a washer from a Bendix brake shoe adjusting mechanism.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 121\1\  scan0186
Date  21th December 1939
  
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Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}
Hl./BPS. 3/JM.{Mr Morley} 21.12.39.
Laboratory
Report 5050.
Re: Bendix Brakes.
Your ref: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} 3/JH. 24.11.39.
With respect to the washer which you handed to us, taken from the shoe adjusting mechanism of a Bendix brake, we have analysed it and have found it to consist of mild steel.
Hl./BPS.
  
  


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