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).
Letter to Automotive Products Company Ltd. regarding drum rigidity, brake drums, and related drawings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 121\1\ scan0340 | |
| Date | 5th November 1940 | |
| 1029 Copy in 1030 Myth EXPERIMENTAL DEPARTMENT. Rn.{Mr Robinson}8/ET. 5th November, 1940. Automotive Products Company Ltd., Tachbrook Road, LEAMINGTON SPA. For the attention of Mr. F.G. Parnell. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter (reference CH/MF) of 31st October and note your remarks about drum rigidity with two leading shoe brakes. We think that it will be possible, in due course, to supply you with a drum of the type we propose to use. You will have had our comments on your drawings FR.648, 649 and 652 in our letter Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}/DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}7/JH. You will note that the MYTH now takes precedence over the RIPLETTO. If our design people should visit you in the immediate future, they will bring the wheel cylinder castings with them, as these are now ready, and any other form of transport seems to be extremely unreliable. Yours faithfully, | ||