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).
Development and testing updates on brakes, shock damper glands, and fan belts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 1\4\ B001_X 100a-page088 | |
| Date | 1st December 1932 | |
| -2- HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/RM.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/MA.1.12.32. Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} through before Christmas. Therefore probably you will bring your car back for Christmas and take the other one out afterwards. Brakes. With regard to the brakes we have obtained very good braking, with exactly the same levers as you have on your car. We find that the Drawing Office have omitted the end movement on the ball bearing in which the servo shaft is located. This tends to make one of the servo plates do all the work. It means that you have to spring the bridge piece, to get both servo plates working equally. Your best move is to make the shaft a slack fit in the inner ball race dia. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} has now told the Works to order 200 sets of long distance material. So at the moment the most useful thing you can do is to try and break something by fair means. We suggest that you find some bad roads and drive hard over them. We do not think you can do much development work on anything except the brakes and clutch. SHOCK DAMPER GLANDS If you do not like the cork-rubber gland, fit asbestos, we are trying variations here. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} FAN BELT We are reducing the fan speed which should cure the trouble | ||