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Table comparing Dunlop tyre pressures and maximum loads from various lists and a letter.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 39\2\  Scan149
Date  28th June 1922
  
28-6-22

DUNLOP TYRE PRESSURES.

SECTION OF TYRE. | DUNLOP LIST DATED OCT. 1/21. | DUNLOP NEW LIST (UNDATED). | DUNLOP LETTER MAY 16/22.
| B.E. | Cord B.E. | Cord S.S. | B.E. | Cord S.S. | B.E. | Cord B.E. | Cord S.S.
120 m {Mr Moon / Mr Moore} /m or 4½" | lbs. 1100 @ 75. | lbs. 1200 @ 75. | lbs. 1200 @ 70. | lbs. 1100 @ 75. | lbs. 1200 @ 70. | - | - | lbs. 1288 @ 60.
135 m {Mr Moon / Mr Moore} /m or 5" | 1500 @ 85. | 1700 @ 80. | 1700 @ 80. | 1500 @ 80. | 1700 @ 80. | - | - | 1624 @ 60.

The loads given are maximum loads per tyre for the pressure shewn.
  
  
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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