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).
Letter on Officers' Mess letterhead discussing issues with brake system ratios and the development of components.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 121\1\ scan0206 | |
| Date | 4th February 1940 guessed | |
| 5. OFFICERS' MESS PRESTWICK AERODROME AYRSHIRE TEL: PRESTWICK 7279 utter chaos in the shop & we could not get the parts made. The trouble about the present fairly simple brake system is that it is difficult to mess about with brake ratios! This always is the trouble with development of cheap components in the finished product. It is necessary to alter the balance lever working the master cylinder, & the outer plate levers. If you will send me | ||