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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).
Conclusion on how wheel offset would increase the severity of the Vauxhall test compared to the Kelsey Hayes test.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 159\7\  scan0286
Date  20th November 1940
  
Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GB.2/ET.20.11.40 - 3 -

The wheel offset would increase the severity [handwritten] / ~~stiffness~~ [typed] / ~~mass~~ [typed] of the Vauxhall test relative to the Kelsey Hayes test by 4 1/2%.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GB.
G.B.
  
  


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