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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).
Checklist indicating the availability of sketches and photographs for various testing procedures and facilities.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 160\3\  scan0067
Date  18th January 1939
  
1379
Jan 18th, 1939.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

SUBJECTS. SKETCH. PHOTO.

Bump Test (question) ✓ ✓

Road Wheel Drum Test (Vivisection)

Brake Test, drawbar (Rack) ✓ ✓✓

Brake Lining (Mewing) ✓ ✓ x

Road Wheel Dynamometer (Treadmill) ✓

Cold Chamber (Zero Hours) ✓ ✓✓ x

Joggling Rig (The Joggler) ✓ ✓

Spring Rate Measurement (The Boot) ✓ ✓

Recurrent Brakes Test (Water Clock)

Engine Unit Test (The Clinic) ✓ ✓✓

Physical Laboratory (Physical Endurance)

Road Performance Chronometer (Used in Evidence)

Electrical Laboratory (Sparks)

Skid Pan ✓ Nov 12 1937

Records Department.

Engine Test Beds. ✓ x

[Handwritten initials 'Bm' across several lines]
  
  


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