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).
Requesting the removal of Handock brake shoes to investigate front axle judder on a streamlined car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\1\ Scan071 | |
| Date | 7th February 1934 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X261 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}11/KW. 7.2.34. B-23-AE. Streamlined Car. Will you please remove the Handock shoes from the wrap-in shoe of both front brakes. We want to find out whether by reducing the total angle of embrace of the shoe we can eliminate the front axle judders that take place when the brake linings are wet. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Grylls. | ||