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Note on a brake test for car 1482, detailing the total weight held on a 1 in 4 gradient.


Identifier  Morton\M4.1\  img001
Date  3rd January 1911
  
R.R. 148 (20 H) (W 585. 16.6.11) G 1737.
X883
Brakes
X956
3/1/'11
2500.
EH = Ernest Hives!
1482 fitted with standard brakes of that series held the car total weight of 5172 lbs on a gradient 1 in 4. each brake held the car.
EH
3/1/11 See Sheet on CRS file. under B.O11/ BH
5172 lb = 46cwt - 1qr 6lb
  
  
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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