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Performance data report from a Ticknall Hill Test comparing Essex, Dodge, and Buick cars.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 21\5\  Scan004
Date  22th December 1920
  
X4213
22.12.20.

TICKNALL HILL TEST - DRIVER AND PASSENGER.
300 lbs. in rear - starting at 10 M.P.H. top gear.
Condition of Tests - No wind - dry roads.
X.4217. X.4213. X.3317.

Lst. Time. M.P.H.
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1st. 0 mins. 10
Essex. " 31
Car. 1 " 39
1 " 19 1/4 secs. 47
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2nd. O MINS. 10
Essex. " 30
Car. 1 " 37
1 " 24 secs. 46
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Lst. 0 mins. 10
Dodge " 27
CAR. 1 " 30 1/4
1 " 27 1/4 secs. 35
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2nd. 0 " 10
Dodge. " 28
Car. 1 " 32 1/4
1 " 24 secs. 36
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Lst. 0 mins. 10
Buick " 22
Car. 1 " 26 1/4
1 " 47 secs. 34

Contd.
  
  
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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