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Instructing that a car model 6-B-IV destined for France should not have open venting holes in its brake drums, correcting a design mistake.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\1\  scan0044
Date  23th September 1935
  
To HHC.

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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 12/KW. 23.9.35.

Brake Drums for 6-B-IV.

The drums and end plates for 6-B-IV have been detailed by the designers as having venting holes. This is a mistake.

Will you please see that this car goes to France without these holes open.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /A.F.Martindale.
  
  
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).


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