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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).
Stating a lack of interest in testing a vacuum-operated servo for motor car brakes.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 120\3\  scan0002
Date  4th December 1926
  
W/S.
CWB. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
X383
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rml/T4.12.26.

VACUUM OPERATED SERVO FOR MOTOR CAR BRAKES.

With reference to your CWB8/GM/3.12.26. we are not at the moment interested in vacuum brakes and do not think, therefore, it would be worth while testing the device which you mention.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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