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Test report for a fluid wear apparatus, detailing the weight loss of a ring specimen over several days.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 132\4\  scan0211
Date  20th February 1939
  
FLUID WEAR APPARATUS. Test No. RR8.

Specimen: ROLLS-ROYCE B.108

Oil: P.4
Gas: O₂
Gas pressure: 40 lb/sq.in.

Original weight of ring: 210.0240 g. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp}
Final " " ": 209.9960 g. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp}
Difference 0.0280 g. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp}

Date | Time of start | Time of stop | Running Time | Standing Time | Remarks
20.2.39 | 9.0 a.m. | 4.30 p.m. | 7½ hrs. | 16½ hrs. |
21.2.39 | 9.0 a.m. | 4.30 p.m. | 7½ hrs. | 16½ hrs. |
22.2.39 | 9.0 a.m. | 4.30 p.m. | 7½ hrs. | 16½ hrs. |
23.2.39 | 9.0 a.m. | 4.30 p.m. | 7½ hrs. | 16½ hrs. |
24.2.39 | 9.0 a.m. | 4.30 p.m. | 7½ hrs. | 16½ hrs. |
25.2.39 | 9.0 a.m. | 11.30 p.m. | 2½ hrs. | 3 hrs. |

Totals | 40 hrs. | 85½ hrs.

Notes:
  
  
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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