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).
Kilometer rolling start test and the effects of different induction pipes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\1\ scan0238 | |
| Date | 9th October 1936 guessed | |
| (2) Kilometer rolling start. 10 MPH. in top gear 41.4 sec. speed 54 MPH. The general performance was the same with either induction pipe. The larger induction pipe gave no gain in speed up well known gradients. As stated there was a feeling of less vigorous acceleration from 10 MPH but in the measured Kilometer there was no time loss in acceleration. The difference in average speed was due to traffic conditions only. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.W.Hancock. | ||