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).
Internal request to obtain various brake linings from Raybestos Ltd.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 26\4\ Scan358 | |
| Date | 15th December 1927 | |
| To ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /3409 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rml/LG15.12.27. BRAKE LININGS. Will you please obtain for us from Messrs. Raybestos Ltd., the following brake linings :- 16 off G.74250 16 " G.4574 16 " G.74743 16 " G.51786 16 " G.52251 We should like these linings as soon as possible, preferably by the 1st. week in Jan. If it will save time we can drill them ourselves. We want them to be the best material Mr. Saunders knows of, preferably slightly more flexible than our present standard Ferodo, of which we should send him a sample, to reduce the tendency to squeak. We should also like 16 pieces to G.4574 in Tenoid grade 'P'. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||