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 the Institution of Automobile Engineers regarding a visit to a research station to see a new brake testing rig.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 141\2\ scan0256 | |
Date | 9th February 1939 | |
1029 1181 Experimental Dept. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} 10/MH.{M. Huckerby} 9th. February, 1939. The Institution of Automobile Engineers, Great West Road, Brentford, MIDDX. For the attention of C.G.Williams, Esq. Dear Sirs, Since our recent visit to your Research Station we were unexpectedly called over to see the operation of a u-speed rig which Ferodo Ltd. have just completed. This rig was built at our suggestion and is an improved version of our own apparatus, using a disc instead of a drum. The preliminary results confirm what we found and we think that at last some improvement of linings may follow. Your confirmation is now not so immediately important but we feel that as you are investigating brake squeak that this is a line well worth pursuing. We will, if you like, keep you in touch with developments. Yours faithfully, for ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||