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Test report comparing spark plug voltage performance with and without a screen.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 162\4\  img016
Date  22th June 1933
  
RR 238 (150 BKS.) (DB {Donald Bastow - Suspensions} 481-8-12-24) MP 306975
ROLLS-ROYCE LTD.
INSTRUCTIONS.
To: WST
Order No.: (Cont.)
Customer's No.:

Test No 3
Comparisons between plugs with screen on & off.
Plug gaps were set at .025". The plugs then inserted in the compression chamber & put under a pressure of 40 lbs/sq".
The voltage was measured on the two plugs with & without screens.

TABLE DATA:
CONDITION | PLUG 1 | | PLUG 2 |
| KILO-VOLTS | DIFFERENCE | KILO-VOLTS | DIFFERENCE
WITHOUT SCREEN | 6.25" | 0.3 KV OR 4.8% DROP | 5.65" | 0.4 KV OR 7.07% DROP
WITH SCREEN | 5.95" | | 5.25" |

Signed: G.H. Hurndell
This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work.
  
  
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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