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Test results for wheelbase and steering lock turning circles on a 1907 long car and a 1908 type frame.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 20\5\  Scan001
Date  16th March 1911 guessed
  
X.426.

WHEEL BASE . LOCKS ETC.

Test on 60591 long 1907 car wheelsbase 143 3/4" to left full lock 44' diam. circle outside front wheel. to right 47'9 ditto. (caught steering tube) EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 10.10.07.

Test on 60589 1908 type frame.

142 1/4" wheelbase.

Full. (to left lock. 44' diameter circle.
Lock. (to right lock 45'8" " "

EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 28.10.07.
  
  
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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