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).
Report detailing an instance of front brakes seizing due to ice formation from melting snow.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\1\ img130 | |
| Date | 29th January 1934 guessed | |
| This morning I set out for Buffalow (Harrison Rad.) but had not gone far before my front brakes seized on. I suspected freezing but though I could move the shaft with the wheel hammer it would not unstick. I therefore laboriously dismantled the pivot without any special tools which took three hours hard work (I commend the job to E when considering a redesign of brakes), and having done this found the warmth of the garage had melted the ice, which was apparently the cause of the trouble all the time, and the shafts were more or less free. Powder snow apparently penetrates the place where the torsion spring is, melts during the night in the garage, and freezes solid the next morning when one has done a few miles. A contributory cause may have been the engine oil in the Bijur tank which under these conditions will hardly | ||