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Standard test procedure for measuring rear riding comfort using water spillage from a container.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 55\3\  Scan265
Date  25th June 1926 guessed
  
REAR RIDING COMFORT - STANDARD TEST.

Ordinary good main road with a slightly wavy surface. Test stretch 3/4 mile long. Road speed 23 m.p.h.

[Diagram annotations:]
Final level 20 HP. .270"
Initial water level. .12
Final level 40/50. .570"
Dimensions of container 2.0" dia. 2.60" high.
Initial quantity of water added - 275 c.c.

Quantity of water lost 20 HP. .56 cu.ins.
" " " New Phantom(Codename for PHANTOM I) .4 cu.ins.

Three containers are used fixed in a tray to the seat boards at the back. The mean of all the containers for two or three runs is taken.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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