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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.
  
  


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