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Test results for a WW flywheel, comparing configurations with and without a tail bearing at different speeds.


Identifier  Morton\M13.2\  img025
Date  13th January 1933 guessed
  
IV G-6 {WW FLYWHEEL}
WITHOUT TAIL BEARING
2500
3000
3000
WITH TAIL BEARING (BALL RACE)
→ 2900
3100
  
  
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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