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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 on an oil sample.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 135\3\  scan0097
Date  9th September 1929
  
Form 8
THE DETROIT TESTING LABORATORY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Number 5709-A-6
Date 9-9-29
Sample from: Taylor Brothers Manufacturing Company
Sample of: Oil
Remarks: #3B
Customer's Order
D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} T. L. Order 51195
"Oil drawn at suction level with Floato full pan after settling 15 hours, full pan."
Water - - - - - - - none
Sediment - - - - - - faint trace
Examination of Sediment: The amount of sediment from 25 grams of oil is so small as to be practically unweighable. The oil contains no bearing metal, or sand. Only faint trace of finely divided carbon present.
[STAMPED TEXT]
READ
READ
REC'D SEP 10 1929
ANS'D
DATE
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22nd
THE DETROIT TESTING LABORATORY
By R.L.Spokes
Form 8
  
  


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