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Graph plotting fuel consumption (US Pints per BHP hours) against revolutions from a traction dynamometer test.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 75\2\  scan0260
Date  8th September 1921 guessed
  
TEST ON SPFLD. TRACTION DYNAMOMETER
BELT DRIVE FROM PULLEYS ON REAR WHEELS
TO PULLEYS ON DYNAMOMETER SHAFT.
DYNAMOMETER RUNS AT TWICE ROAD WHEEL SPEED
OR .615 ENGINE SPEED (16/52 AXLE).
US PINTS PER BHP HOURS
1 U.S. Pint = .833 IMP. PINT.
REVS
TEST. 4.
TEST. 2.
TEST. 3.
TEST. 1.
TEST. 6.
TEST. 7.
TEST. 5.
TEST. 8.
TEST. 9.
TEST. 10.
KEUFFEL & ESSER CO., NEW YORK, NO. 324 C.
RF
  
  
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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