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Lap speeds and tyre configurations during track testing.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 155\1\  scan0187
Date  9th August 1935 guessed
  
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5 laps. 5.50 x 19" tyres. Green old type wings.
Lap speed - 99.6 secs = 100.01 M.P.H.
1/4 mile 18.0 " = 100.00 "

No. 4 test was carried out after lunch, with
slightly more wind on the track.


2 laps were covered with Dunlop "90" 6 x 19 tyres,
but no figures were taken.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /F.Dodd;
  
  
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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