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Performance test results for the Original Big Bore Unit in a Bentley I.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 155\1\  scan0189
Date  21th September 1935
  
X1320

21.9.35.

Original Big Bore Unit in Bentley I.

Large Carburetters, standard exhaust system, 6.8 C/R.

Lap Speeds 1 min. 49 4/5. 90.72 m.p.h.

C.O. Open 1 min. 49 91.38 m.p.h.

C.O. Closed 1 min. 51.1 89.74 m.p.h.

1/2 Mile. 19 secs. 94.74 m.p.h.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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