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Test data for a Firths rear road spring, showing weights applied and released.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 52\2\  Scan075
Date  16th March 1923
  
Mr. Hives. from GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} X4429 16.3.23.

REAR ROAD SPRING - FIRTHS.

2200 lbs. 10 plates.

| | Weight applied. | Weight released. |
|:--- |:--- |:--- |
| ½ | 518 | 441 |
| 1 | 847 | 882 |
| 1½ | 1323 | 1183 |
| 2 | 1708 | 1680 |
| 2½ (flat camber) | 2114 | 1804 |
| 3 | 2527 | 2331 |
| 3½ | 2821 | 2828 |
| 4 | 3381 | 3115 |
| 4½ | 3850 | 3619 |
| 5 | 4270 | 3920 |
| 5½ | 4604 | |

leaves dry.
  
  
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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