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Test results for an 18-inch fan with shutters closed during a throttling down test on Swinscoe Hill.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 77\4\  scan0287
Date  31th October 1922
  
X4240
31.10.22

18" Fan - all shutters closed - throttling down.

Tests on Swinscoe Hill.

Speedometer reading.

3rd. Gear. 2.nd. Gear. 1st. Gear.
Atmos: Water. Atmos: Water. Atmos: Water.
Start. 7°C 60°C 6°C 60°C 5½°C 60°C
63 " 63 " 61 "
65 " 64 " 62 "
67 " 65 " 63 "
Finish. 6°C 66 " 5°C 64½" 4½°C 62 "
  
  
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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