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 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) 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} | ||