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Brake test results showing stopping distances from various speeds.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 11\3\  03-page504
Date  7th August 1931
  
BRAKE TESTS.
25-EX.

Taken on the Salbris Road.

Distance required to stop from -

30 M.P.H. ........ 37 ft
70 M.P.H. ........ 330 ft
60 M.P.H. ........ 248 ft
50 M.P.H. ........ 160 ft
40 M.P.H. ........ 98 ft
30 M.P.H. ........ 40 ft
80 M.P.H. ........ 372 ft

C.W.H. Pilot shoes fitted on front and rear.

Tyres in good condition. Weather good. Road surface,
tar with Hilton gravel.

A.E.Roberts.
Driver.
  
  
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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