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).
Request to borrow and modify a set of Bentley brake shoes for E.R. Hall's Le Mans car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90a\4\ Scan104 | |
| Date | 17th April 1936 | |
| x262 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}19/JH.17.4.36. E.R. Hall's Car - Le Mans. Will you please arrange to borrow from Production a set of six Bentley brake shoes, complete in every way except for the Ferodo which should not be fitted. Will you send these shoes with double the number of rivets necessary to :- J.N. Longley Esq., Chief Chemist, Ferodo Ltd., Chapel-en-le-Frith. who will line these with special Ferodo and return them to us. On the return of those shoes will you fit them to E.R. Hall's new car and send back the present shoes to Production. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||