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).
Scored rear brakes and the request to refit them with original shoes to test an iron liner.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\2\ scan0131 | |
| Date | 11th November 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}8/AP.11.11.37. Handwritten: 8 200a 6.B.1V. REAR BRAKES. We have examined the rear brakes of this car and we find that after 4,000 miles the rear brakes have got rather scored by the R.U. linings and we do not wish to send it to France in this state. Will you please re-fit the original shoes lined with B.Z. and lightly skim the brake drums to remove the grooves. This will give us information as to how a thin iron liner behaves. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||