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Performance comparison notes from two acceleration tests between cars.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 155\1\  scan0089
Date  1st June 1933 guessed
  
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Starting both cars level at 10 m.p.h., top gear,
3.Per.II. S.U. carvs. gains about 2 lengths by 40,
5 by 50, and about 150 yards by max. speed.

Starting level at 50 m.p.h. 3.Per.II. gets over 100
yards ahead.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
  
  
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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