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).
Pages from a product manual for the Ashdown Rotoscope, showing the device and its use in aero-engine testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\3\ scan0180 | |
| Date | 15th April 1940 guessed | |
| A FEW OF THE USES The Ashdown Rotoscope has introduced a new and convincing factor into modern technical and research departments. The information obtained by its use—though frequently highly disturbing to theoretically established standards—is of incalculable service and value to progressive testing and research departments in all branches of industry. The following are some of the fields in which the instrument has been the means of recording new important data:— Standard “C” Type Ashdown Rotoscope. [Text on label on the device] ROTOSCOPE THE MAKERS A.{Mr Adams} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} ASHDOWN, LTD. 119, VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, S.W.1. PATENT APPLIED FOR Aero-Engine Testing with the Ashdown Rotoscope. GENERAL ENGINEERING. Gearing; chain-drives; belts; clutches of all types; ball and roller bearings; faults in fly wheels; reciprocating motions; cutting tools; etc. Page Two Page Eleven | ||