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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).
Continued report page discussing a 2.5% reduction in road wheel revolutions per mile at high speeds.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 59\2\  Scan113
Date  16th March 1931
  
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Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}2/MJ.16.3.31.Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

proof of the stated 2½% reduction in the road wheel revs/mile figure at high speeds as compared with slow or moderate speeds. We cannot give a reliable figure for this until we have actually carried out tests with Veeder counters.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/A.J.Lidsey.
  
  


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