Accelerometer record showing performance test results for a Chrysler 75 vehicle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 113\2\ scan0137 | |
| Date | 23th January 1929 | |
| "Chrysler 75" Chassis No. Passengers: 2 Axle ratio ACCELEROMETER RECORD. Date. 23-1-29 Type of body: Allweather Weight unladen Front total. Rear: 32 1/2 cwt. Road conditions: fair. wet. greasy Run on Shardlow Road, towards Derby. 1st gear to 10 M.P.H. = 8 ft sec^2 On top Gear. 50 M.P.H. =1.9 ft sec^2 40 M.P.H. =2.5 ft sec^2 30 M.P.H. =2.9 ft sec^2 20 M.P.H. =3.4 ft sec^2 30 to 10 M.P.H. = 9 secs =3.7 ft sec^2 | ||
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).