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Acceleration test results for a 10x41 Axle with cut out closed.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 82\1\  scan0208
Date  18th August 1933
  
To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
From G.W.H.

Hotel de France.
Chateauroux(French test region).
Indre.
18.8.33.

I.B.IV. 10x41 AXLE

ACCELERATION TESTS WITH CUT OUT CLOSED (Average)

Top Gear

MPH        SEC            MPH        SEC
10 - 20        4.35            10 - 20        4.45
10 - 30        8.65            20 - 30        4.5
10 - 40        12.6            30 - 40        4.25
10 - 50        17.            40 - 50        4.85
10 - 60        22.95            50 - 60        5.2
10 - 70        30.4            60?- 70        6.8
10 - 80        41.4            70 - 80        12.45

3rd Gear

MPH        SEC
10 - 20        3.65
10 - 30        6.45
10 - 40        10.
10 - 50        13.8
10 - 60        18.75
10 - 70        24.3

Standing start through gears to 80 M.P.H. 35.5 sec.

STANDARD PETROL; RRZ NEEDLES; PETROL TANK 3/4 FULL;

ONE DRIVER & PASSENGER
  
  
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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