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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).
Two graphs comparing the rolling resistance of different tyre types under machine and road test conditions.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 158\1\  scan0015
Date  14th January 1927 guessed
  
contd :- -6a-

FIG 1.
MACHINE TESTS ON ROLLING RESISTANCE
SPEED 50 M.P.H
ROLLING RESISTANCE LBS WT/TN.
INFLATION PRESSURE LBS/SQ IN.
33 x 6.75 TYRE
33 x 5 TYRE

FIG: 2.
ROAD ROLLING RESISTANCE TESTS
DISTANCE ROLLED FROM REST YDS
INFLATION PRESSURE LBS / SQ. IN.
33 x 6.75 TYRES
33 x 5 TYRES
  
  


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