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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).
Laboratory report on the analysis of an oil sample from the Detroit Testing Laboratory.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 135\3\  scan0095
Date  9th September 1929
  
Form 8
THE DETROIT TESTING LABORATORY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Number 5709-A-4
Date 9-9-29
Sample from Taylor Brothers Manufacturing Company
Sample of Oil
Remarks #1B
Customer's Order
D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} T. L. Order 51195

"Oil drawn at suction level with Floato, full pan after running, no settling time."

Water - - - - - - - none
Sediment - - - - - - faint trace only.

Examination of Sediment: The amount of sediment from 25 grams of the oil is so small as to be practically unweighable. The oil contains no bearing metal or sand. Only slight trace of finely divided carbon present.

Stamped Text:
READ
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REC'D SEP 10 1929
ANS'D
LTF

ZZ/slc THE DETROIT TESTING LABORATORY
By Alporis
  
  


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