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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).
Experimental notes and diagrams comparing a mechanical system with and without a balancer lever.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 85\1\  scan0151
Date  27th July 1936
  
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We then discovered that when the balancer lever was removed altogether, leaving only the actuating lever, no judders occurred. The point we had been seeking to prove in experiment (13), i.e., the feasibility of balancing one inertia mass by another working in the opposite direction, was for the moment non-proven.
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