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).
Issues with rear brake sponginess, wheel looseness, and engine tightness.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 1\4\ B001_X 100a-page119 | |
| Date | 8th December 1932 guessed | |
| -3- to do with the pilot shoe or the servo clearance. We are very definite that our sponginess is in the rear brakes and is either due to the winding up of the toggle shaft or the sponginess of the toggles. As stated earlier on in our memo, we are not getting anywhere near the front braking, as apparently you are doing. Our brake drums do not show any signs of scoring, neither do our tyres show that we are getting any braking. WHEELS. we have not had any sign of any wheels becoming loose. ENGINE TIGHTNESS. As our engine has never freed itself, we cannot distinguish any difference between when the water temperature is low or high. G.W.Hancock G.W.H. | ||