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Unaccounted 8% loss of horsepower in the transmission.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 156\4\  scan0097
Date  30th June 1939
  
1330 ?

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /TAS. {T. Allan Swinden} from Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4/R,30.6.39.

LOSSES IN THE TRANSMISSION.

We have done some very useful work estimating the losses in tyres, and it now appears that we are left with 8% loss of clutch horse-power for which we cannot account.

We should be glad if you would consider how we can find out where this power is going.

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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