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Electrical experimental record sheet for a contact breaker lever fitted with Spaulding's Fibre.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 69\1\  scan0404
Date  24th September 1926
  
ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTAL RECORD SHEETS.
X. No:- 4646
contact breaker lever fitted with Spaulding's Fibre.
Date on. | Location. | Date off. | REMARKS. | Miles reading start. | Miles reading finish. | Miles covered. | Total miles.
22-4-26 | 12EX | | Fitted to 12EX. Dimensions before running top .294" bottom .292" | 195
3-6-26 | " | 30-6-26 | Car sent to France for 10000 mile test | | 777 | 582 |
| | | | | 2684 | 2489 | 2489
24-9-26 | - | | measurements
top .257" bottom .252 | | 8769 | 16,085 | 18,574
Average wear = .038"
Proportional approx wear for 10000 mls = .021"
This wear is more than 100% more than that experienced with other bone grey fibres
  
  
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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