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 send replacement brake drums and rivets to testers in Chateauroux, France, due to wear and damage.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\1\ scan0214 | |
Date | 22th September 1936 | |
K200a To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}20/KW.22.9.36. 6-B-IV - Running in France. The testers in France have managed to wear out the front brake linings on their car, and have damaged the drum on the O.S. by running on the rivets. Will you please send out to Chateauroux the pair of drums originally intended for the Girling Brakes, the Ferodo B.Z. pieces handed to you herewith, and the necessary rivets for relining, viz:- 30 No. GB.710 Rivets. 60 No. GB.711 " Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/A.F. Martindale. | ||