In a message dated 1/6/2008 4:42:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
standardtriumph@btinternet.com writes:
I'm surmising here - and I'm sure Paul Richardson would confirm from the
extensive records he has
from his late father, Ken - that TR3 heavy braking with drum brakes on the
European Alpine rallies
of the early 1950's led to serious brake fade and possible boiling of fluid?
Although it wasn't a
TR, my own bug-eye Sprite had terrifyingly inadequate front drum brakes
(through fade) when used on
those same roads. Needless to say, the Sprite wasn't being driven nearly as
fast as a TR but the
lack of effective braking was a good alternative to an effective laxative!
==AM==
Wonderfully phrased as always, John! :-)
I don't have any of my Triumph books handy at the moment, but I do recall
accounts of various disc brake setups (Dunlop and Lockheed, as well as Girling)
being tried out on the Le Mans cars, circa 1955.
And yes, Triumph definitely was NOT the first to use disc brakes; to be
painfully correct, I think TR3s were the first volume, series-production
British
car to use them, and possibly the first volume, series-production car in the
world to introduce and stay with front disc brakes. (I recall reading
somewhere that there were experimental front brakes on some Chrysler Imperials
or
some such car around 1951, but that very, very few cars were so equipped,
possibly due to problems with the brakes.)
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