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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 from The Detroit Testing Laboratory detailing the percentage of water in an oil sample.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 135\3\  scan0101
Date  5th September 1929
  
Form 8
THE DETROIT TESTING LABORATORY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Number 5705-A-19
Sample from Taylor Brothers Manufacturing Corporation
Date 9-5-29
Customer's Order 2174
Sample of Oil
D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} T. L. Order 51176
Remarks
Marked: "Sample drawn from 1/8 inch of bottom of oil, after 12 violent brake applications with Float-O application. 350cc of water added to original quantity of oil.
Percentage of water to total sample by weight - 0.883%
Percentage of water to total sample by volume - 0.801%
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REC'D SEP 6 1929
ANS'D
DATE
26 sec
THE DETROIT TESTING LABORATORY
By [Signature]
Director Organic Laboratory.
  
  


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