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).
The parts required to make a dozen sets of Bentley Aluminium Brake Drums for trial cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\1\ scan0178 | |
| Date | 19th August 1936 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X206 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}11/KW.19.8.36. Bentley Aluminium Brake Drums. We are wanting to make a dozen sets of the above for fitting to various trials cars etc. The following parts will be necessary to effect this conversion. Front drums to instruction BY/TWD.{T. W. D???Aeith}2/E.10.8.36. The drums required are those suitable for existing hubs. Materials RR.53.c, and Millenite. Rear drums to N.Sch.4796. Materials RR.53.c and Millenite (Use up any castings in RR.53). Any remaining front drum castings N Sch.4798 in R.R.53 can be sent back to Foundry for re-melting. Steering levers GB.2059/60. These levers are suitable for existing cross steering tube ball joints. The forgings from which they are machined are also suitable for the latest levers instructed in BY/TWD.{T. W. D???Aeith}5/EH.31.7.36. Anti-judder N.Sch.4865, with long balance levers GB.2388. Please see that sufficient of these parts will be available. Ferodo S.5805 is necessary: please order a sufficient quantity. Please instruct. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/A.F.Martindale. | ||