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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).
Data table for calculating the placement of divisions on a contracted scale from an original proportional scale.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 59\2\  Scan126
Date  23th March 1931 guessed
  
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d₀
Original reading
in miles per hour
on proportional
scale.

.00036 d₀²

d
divisional position
on the old proportional
scale at which the
division corresponding
to d₀ miles per hour
on the new contracted
scale
should be placed.

0    0    0
10    .036    9.964
20    .144    19.856
30    .324    29.676
40    .576    39.424
45    .73    44.27
50    .90    49.10
60    1.30    58.70
70    1.76    68.24
80    2.30    77.70
90    2.92    87.08
  
  


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