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Instruction sheet with calculations for Goshawk engine motor performance and specifications.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 51\5\  Scan070
Date  15th December 1921
  
RR.238.(300 Bks.) (SF 152. 6-11-18.) MP 197880
ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED.
INSTRUCTIONS.
To E.F.C.
Order No P.B.32.
Customer's No. X4342 L
Dec 15th 1921
Ratio of field resist. to arm. .898
Length arm. overhang at driving end. .650"
Length of com. connections (excluding spokes). .700"
Ditto (including spokes) .850"
With the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) engine cold, requiring according to our estimate, a motor torque of 66 lbs in/secs, the motor speed would, with these results, be 750 rpm, and the engine speed 89 rpm.
The other quantities at this point would be:-
Amperes. = 187.5
Volts. 8.25
B.H.P. .80
Efficiency. .38
Signed L'g't'ld.
This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work.
  
  
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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