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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).
To Mr. Hives comparing the slowest speeds of various cars and the performance of a Marmon tyre pump.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 32\5\  Scan147
Date  17th March 1921
  
1692
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17.3.21.

Mr. Hives,

x.1692
4213 Marmon tyre pump 500 r.p.m. pumps 60 lbs. in 10 mins.
x 1525 lowest slow speed 3.25 M.P.H. 40 M.P.H. speedometer
x 3923 38.3 M.P.H. (time)

Dodge - slowest speed 6.3 M.P.H.
40 M.P.H. speedometer 40.9 M.P.H. (time)

Humber - slowest speed 4.5
40 M.P.H. speedometer 38.3 M.P.H. time.

6.EX slowest speed 3.75 M.P.H.
40 M.P.H. speedometer 38.3 M.P.H. (time.

GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}
  
  


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