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Data table for a Venturi petrol flow meter with a mercury gauge, correlating manometer readings with flow rates.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 37\2\  scan 123
Date  8th December 1917
  
X. 3180

8.12.17.

C. 804

X 3180 VENTURI PETROL FLOW METER (With mercury gauge).

Table based upon G = .1865 √H

Difference of level in manometer gauge. | Flow in galls/minute. | Time for 4 pints in seconds.
[Handwritten annotation between columns 1 and 2: Pints per hr 240]
7.20 | .500 | 60
6.97 | .492 | 61
6.74 | .484 | 62
6.53 | .476 | 63
6.33 | .469 | 64
6.13 | .4615 | 65
5.96 | 4.55 | 66
5.76 | .4475 | 67
5.60 | .441 | 68
5.44 | .435 | 69
5.28 | .428 | 70
5.14 | .4225 | 71
5.01 | .417 | 72
4.87 | .411 | 73
4.73 | .4055 | 74
4.60 | .400 | 75
4.50 | .395 | 76
4.26 | .385 | 78
4.05 | .375 | 80
3.85 | .366 | 82
3.67 | .357 | 84
3.51 | .349 | 86
3.35 | .341 | 88
3.19 | .333 | 90

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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