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Test report on the 3.EX (HAWK) Speedometer and Mileometer performance with varying tyre pressures.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 8\2\  02-page43
Date  1st June 1923
  
X613
1.6.23.
3.EX (HAWK(Aero Engine)) SPEEDOMETER.
X3408 / X613
Speedometer records 1.7 m.p.h. slower at 30 m.p.h. with tyres at 90 lbs. per sq.in. than with tyres at 30 lbs. per sq.in.
Mileometer. 7.4% fast with tyres at 90 lbs.per sq.in.
10.45% fast with tyres at 30 lbs. per sq.in.
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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