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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).
Proposing a hill test around Derbyshire to compare high and low compression cars, deeming the Brooklands test too short.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 29\3\  Scan069
Date  19th April 1920
  
X.788
To BJ. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} [Crossed out] EFC
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}9/LG19.4.20.

X.788. TESTS ON HIGH AND LOW COMPRESSION CHASSIS.

With reference to attached, it will be an easy matter for us to find a hill round Derbyshire where we can compare high and low compression cars. The test at Brooklands is too short for any proper comparisons.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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