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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).
Test and mileage log for a C.A.V. type Small Shunt Dynamo.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 168a\3\  img185
Date  20th February 1935
  
File 38/25 dynamo

SHEET No. 4 R.{Sir Henry Royce} Reg. No. R.R. 1005
EXPERIMENTAL TESTING DEPT.

EXPERIMENTAL DEPT. Small Shunt Dynamos (C.A.V. Type as fitted)

| DATE | CAR NO | REMARKS | MILES RECORDED | MILES COMPLETED | TOTAL MILES |
|----------|--------|---------------------------------------|----------------|-----------------|-------------|
| 31-3-33 | 18 G | | 11,300 | | |
| 4-4-33 | " | Reading taken | 11,381 | 81 | 81 |
| 1-5-33 | " | Reading taken. Car leaving for France | 12,561 | 1,180 | 1,261 |
| 24-6-33 | " | Reading. Returned from France. | 29,273. | 16,712 | 17,973 |
| 21-7-33 | " | Reading taken. | 31,349 | 2,076 | 20,049 Field |
| 1-9-33 | " | " | 34,322 | 2,973 | 23,022 resistance |
| 30-10-33 | " | " | 37,322 | 2,506 | 26,028 C.17 D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} |
| 14-11-33 | " | generator started up | 42,028 | 1,200 | 31,728 |
| 2-12-33 | " | " | 360 | | |
| | " | " | 1,854 | 1,494 | 33,222 |
| 30-12-33 | " | Reading taken | 42,053 | | |
| | | | 42,408 | | |
| 8-3-34 | " | " | 45,488 | 2,459 | 37,157. |
| 25-7-34 | " | " | 54,507 | 9,019 | 44,691 |
| 20-2-35 | " | Condition noted. | 61,065 | 6,558 | 51,534 |

Regulator working satisfactorily when removed. Joints tidy, but one about 2/3 of surface showing arcing & being somewhat blackened. Second contacts pitted much less. Both brushes free etc.
  
  


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