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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).
Report describing vehicle instability on a curved road track, comparing it to a belt on a pulley.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 80\1\  scan0067
Date  23th August 1920
  
R.R. 199 (250T) (SD676 19-7-17) MP 180865

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RB{R. Bowen}/G23.8.20.

unstable under such conditions, but in this case the actual road track was only very little wider than the car track, and the curvature was very great, my impression being that it was something like a belt running on a hollow pulley instead of a crowned.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}
  
  


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