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 failure of moulded pedal gap plates for the Wraith model, recommending a switch to aluminium plates.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 147\5\ scan0272 | |
| Date | 17th March 1939 | |
| 635 RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/DWD c. BY/NS{Norman Scott} BY.10/G.17.3.39 WRAITH. MOULDED PEDAL GAP PLATES. I have examined the pedal gap plates, which have been tested by the Experimental Garage. These have failed due to the material being too brittle to permit the gap plate to bed down and take up the inevitable distortion which is always present whatever type of floorboards used. We should now proceed with the aluminium gap plate for 'C' series. This will give more time for the development, using other mixtures. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||