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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).
Continued memo describing vehicle stability on a narrow, curved road track, analogized to a belt on a pulley.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 20\2\  Scan093
Date  23th August 1920
  
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RB{R. Bowen}/G23.8.20.

unstable under such conditions, but in this case the actual road track was only very little wider than the car track, and the curvature was very great, my impression being that it was something like a belt running on a hollow pulley instead of a crowned.

H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} L. R.{Sir Henry Royce}

EXTRA

R.R. 255a (50r) (S.G. 758. 24.3.20) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2650
  
  


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