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Test results for car 2-B-4 at Brooklands after fitting new Aerolite pistons.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 155\1\  scan0162
Date  12th September 1934
  
S/W. {Sales / Derby Works}
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} ..from Bn. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington}
Copy to Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}

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Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Bn. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} 1/WT12.9.34.

I tested the car I am running -
2-B-4 at Brooklands with the following results.

Lap speed, average of three laps. 90.
Flying half-mile. 93.26
Rev. counter reading over half-mile about. 4500
Gain since new pistons (Aerolite)
fitted - about 2 m.p.h.

Bn. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington}
  
  
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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