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Comparative velocity curve analysis for the Bentley Speed Model and the Vermorel 12-25, critiquing data from 'The Motor' magazine.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 73\3\  scan0302
Date  3rd February 1925 guessed
  
Left Chart:
THE MOTOR 3/3/25.
ROAD SPEED M.P.H.
TIME SECS.
BENTLEY SPEED MODEL.
THIS TIME VELOCITY CURVE CONSISTS OF TWO STRAIGHT LINES JOINED TOGETHER BY A CURVE. THIS IS MOST IMPROBABLE.

Right Chart:
THE MOTOR 17/3/25.
ROAD SPEED M.P.H.
TIME SECS.
VERMOREL 12 - 25.
THE VERMOREL, LIKE THE RENAULT, APPEARS TO HAVE A CONSTANT ACCELERATION FROM 10 TO 53 M.P.H.
WE HAVE SHEWN WHAT SORT OF A H.P. CURVE THIS NECESSITATES.

Handwritten note on far right:
6 Photos 5/7/26
  
  
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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