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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 record for an A.T. Speedometer.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 59\2\  Scan102
Date  3rd February 1931
  
X6051b

A.T. SPEEDOMETER TEST RECORD.

Date :- 3.2.31.
Speedometer :- D.231 740 11/50
Remarks :- After 10,000 miles on 18-GIV
change of reading test.

Drive revolutions per counter mile (found by actual trial). 742.5
Correct miles per hour reading when driven at 600 r.p.m. 48.5

Temperature (°C) | M.P.H. indicated at 600 r.p.m. exactly.
16.5 | 46.8
20.0 | 46.5
22.0 | 46.1
24.0 | 45.9
26.0 | 45.7
28.0 | 45.6
30.0 | 45.4
32.0 | 45.2

Percent fall of reading between 20°C. and 30°C... 2.4

14.3.31.
  
  


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