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 for details on a returned B. & B. clutch and a Thermoid faced plate.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 107\3\ scan0160 | |
| Date | 22th February 1939 | |
| 561 W/N. c. Hd.{Mr Hayward/Mr Huddy} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler}6/JH.22.2.39. re CAN.53 Job. No.JN.38693. You have returned to Works, for stock, one complete B. & B. clutch and a Thermoid faced plate removed from the above car. Would you kindly let us have all the details you can as to the nature of the complaint and the mileage run with the present plate as you will appreciate we are interested in these troubles, especially in view of the that troubles with Thermoid faced clutches represent an extremely small percentage of the whole number of clutches in use. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/NRC.{N. R. Chandler} | ||