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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).
Log sheet recording results from temperature tests on a vehicle under various driving conditions.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 75\4\  scan0010
Date  3rd August 1911
  
R.R. ITS (20 H) (W 414. 13.4.11) G 1615.
Floor boards
2000 . 3/8/11,X819
E.H.
Temperature Tests 3500.

Taken on 1419 with side doors + Summer windscreen
Atmospheric Temp 26°C. Dashboard with ventilators & also holes
XX for air to enter under floor boards

Table:
1 Floor boards Radiation
Miles run | M.P.H | Start | finish | Start | finish | Holes in dash | Ventilators in dash | Notes
5 | 20 | 26° | 39° | . | 78° | closed | closed | Starting from W
5 | 30 | 38° | 40° | 78° | 77° | closed | closed | light running
5 | 35 | 38° | 36° | 77 | 72 | " | " | "
3 | 20 | 36° | 37 1/2° | 66° | 74° | " | " | Ashbourne Hill
3 | 20 | 36° | 36° | 67° | 77 | open | closed | "
3 | 30 2nd gear | 35° | 38° | 67° | 75° | closed | " | " 2nd gear
3 | 30 2nd gear | 35° | 35° | 68° | 77° | open | " | " 2-nd gear
3 | 25 | 35° | 37° | 67° | 81° | open | open | " (over) R
  
  


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