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).
Log of brake faults and subsequent repairs on various chassis, with statistical summaries.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 130\4\ scan0012 | |
| Date | 30th June 1936 guessed | |
| 2 brakes) Note: We also made act.shafts of hand brake free in action (All the above chassis had bronze act.shaft bearings). PH.II CHASSIS I32.PY - 49.500 Kms. - Job 34742 Cause of seizure ZT2 oil distributor T piece fitted wrong way round. Dismantled and freed the hand brake act.shafts. 5 Brakes thump. June Quarter C.C. C.P. Previous Quarter C.C. I I I C.P. ---------------------------------------- Six Months I I I ======================================== Cleaned front brake liners. 6 Front brakes oil leak on to liners, affect- ing the braking. June Quarter C.C. 5 I 6 6 C.P. Previous Quarter C.C. 2 2 2 2 C.P. ---------------------------------------- Six Months 5 3 8 8 ======================================== 20/25 H.P. CHASSIS GAE.2 - 22.660 Kms. - Job 35173 Dismantled brake mechanism and cured oil leak from the o/s and n/s lower pivot flange by remaking the joints. Also cured oil leak past the brake carrier plates and the face of the axle pivots. The faces of the pivot flanges and the brake carrier plates were built up with "gomme laque" so as to make them oil tight (owner charged for cleaning and rebedding front brakes). GWX.32 - 20.537 Kms. - Job 34951 Brakes very uneven, pull right or pull left (2nd complaint).Dismantled front brake mechanism, washed liners in petrol, re-erected shoes, rebedded liners and reset pivoted shoes. Dismantled and made faces of lower pivot flange oil tight. GAE.75 - 30.000 Kms. - Job 35.021 Oil leak on to brakes. Dismantled pivots, made lower pivot flanges and brake carrier plates oil tight and repaired one bijur oil pipe. Note: Owner charged for cleaning and rebedding brakes. P.T.O. | ||