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).
Test log sheet recording various configurations of car body parts like wings, screen, and tail.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\2\ scan0122 | |
Date | 18th June 1928 | |
MODEL 1 TEST | FRONT WINGS | REAR WINGS | SCREEN | TAIL | REAR SPARE WHEEL | PLATFORM STEPS 1 | NIL | NIL | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | NIL 2 | NIL | STD • | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | NIL 3 | STD. (NO OUTSIDE VALANCE) • | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | YES • 4 | STD (WITH OUTSIDE VAL.) | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | YES 5 | STD. (WITH OUTSIDE VAL.) | STD | 17° | SHORT | OUTSIDE • | YES 6 | FLARED (WITHOUT LIP) • | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | YES • 7 | FLARED (WITH LIP) • | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | YES 8 | BIRDWING • | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | NO • 9 | PANHARD • | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | YES • 10 | CYCLE TYPE • | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | NO 11 | SLIPPER TYPE • | STD | 17° | SHORT | RECESS | NO 12 | STD. (NO OUTSIDE VAL) • | STD | 25° • | SHORT | RECESS | YES • 13 | STD (NO OUTSIDE VAL) | STD | 35° • | SHORT | RECESS | YES 14 | BEST WING • | STD | 25° | SHORT | RECESS | ? 15 | BEST WING | STD | 35° • | SHORT | RECESS | ? 16 | STD. WING (NO OUTSIDE V) • | STD | BEST • | LONG • | RECESS | YES • 17 | BEST WING • | STD | BEST | LONG | RECESS | ? 18 | BEST WING | STD | BEST | LONG | OUTSIDE • | ? RED INDICATES PARTS CHANGED AFTER EACH SUCCESSIVE TEST FURTHER FOUR TESTS TO BE CARRIED OUT IF TIME ALLOWS. TESTS TO BE DECIDED AS RESULT OF PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS. | ||