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Graph showing the torsional rating and hysteresis curve for a shock damper connecting tube with American type rubber control pin bushes.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 151\2\  scan0311
Date  8th October 1936
  
SHOCK DAMPER CONNECTING TUBE
AMERICAN TYPE - RUBBER CONTROL PIN BUSHES
TORSIONAL RATING TEST - TUBE REMOVED AFTER FAILURE ON BUMP CHASSIS.
HYSTERESIS CURVE UP TO 40° MOVEMENT. TEST THEN REPEATED UP TO 85° MOVEMENT.
(FOR PREVIOUS TESTS SEE REPORT HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /WB. {Mr Brazier / Mr Bell} 1/TH 3-9-36)
Y-Axis: ANGULAR MOVEMENT - DEGREES
X-Axis: TORQUE - LB FT.
Graph Labels: LOADING, RELEASING
  
  
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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