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Request to source and send replacement Ferodo lined front brake shoes for a Bentley 6.B.1V to the Paris Depot.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\2\  scan0200
Date  28th January 1938
  
To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 200a
c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /IMW. {Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} (Chateauroux(French test region))

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 4/AP.28.1.38

FRONT BRAKES - BENTLEY 6.B.1V.

Will you please book out from Production a set of Bentley front brake shoes, line them with Ferodo M.R.3. (herewith) and send them to our Paris Depot (address Franco-Britannic Auto Co.Ltd., 25 Rue de Gide, Levallois-Perret-Paris) by Air Mail, marked for Mr.Waller's attention.

The liners will have to be bedded to the drum, as well as possible in France; they are to replace the present ones on C.B.1V. which are worn out.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale}
  
  
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).


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