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Extract from a memorandum concerning the 3-speed gearbox and the increasing weight of complete cars.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 3\2\  02-page084
Date  9th September 1920
  
R.R. 129A 10m 1/20 B.B. & S. (P.273)

X200

Extract from

Hel/LG-9.9.20.

X.3720. RE - 3 SPEED GEARBOX.

X.200. Another point we should like to emphasize is the fact that the weight of complete cars is going up. We have instructions for a number of chassis which, complete with normal load, will weight just over 3 tons. The average weight of cars now is appreciably heavier than pre-war cars.

HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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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