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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).
Test results report detailing carburetter performance, lap speeds, and fuel/oil consumption.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 93\2\  scan0160
Date  6th April 1936
  
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Cut out open.

Lap - 90.55 m.p.h.
1/2 mile - 94.74. m.p.h.

Result clear.

Test 4

2nd Carburetter.

Pumps, flex, pipe line in the V but the petrol feed taken up directly under the needle seating.

Needle seating - 180"
Needle 60° snub nose.
Lap 87.38 m.p.h.
1/2 mile 92.78.

Result clear, no sign of starving.

Derby - Brooklands - Petrol consumption - 7.9 m.p.g.
average speed - 44.4 m.p.h.

Brooklands - Derby )
Change of carburetter) - Petrol consumption 8.81 m.p.g.
as used in test 4 ) average speed 40.28 m.p.h.

Derby - Brooklands )
and return including) - Oil consumption - 553.6 m.p.g.
mileage at the track )
  
  


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