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Ideal braking distribution for 4-wheel brakes.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 73\3\  scan0103
Date  30th June 1924
  
X.9940

TO HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}

R3/M30.6.24.

4-WHEEL BRAKES. X.9940

I notice that you will have approximately 6 times the braking of the present standard 2 wheel brakes. I would like to point out that I have repeatedly asked for this to be reduced to about 4 times and in the figures I have 37% should go to the front wheels. Experience is teaching us that this should be even less, so that one would prefer to keep between 30% and 40% of the total braking on the front wheels.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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