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).
Request to fit GWH brake shoes to a car, with Locomotive Type shoes as a backup.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\5\ Scan121 | |
| Date | 4th December 1930 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} x899- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/MJ.4.12.30. 18-EX. R.{Sir Henry Royce} has now telegraphed that he wishes to try the GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} brake shoes on the front of his car. Will you please, therefore, fit these on the car when you build the axle up and arranged to have the Locomotive Type brake shoes and the necessary Bijur pipes to be available so that Dodd can fit these if the GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} shoes show any tendency to squeak. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||