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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).
Comparison of American car engine weights with notes on contemporary automotive technology.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\1\  img340
Date  9th February 1934 guessed
  
not easy to form an intelligent opinion exact comparison with our own.
ENGINE WEIGHTS.

Type    Displacement    Wt of engine with flywheel backplate & everything inc dynamo except starter motor. No clutch or trans mission

Packard line 8    320 cu. ins.    808 LBS
Alum. Crankcase

Cadillac 8 Vee    352 cu. ins.    720 LBS
alum Crankcase

Buick Line 8    340 cu. ins.    900 LBS
Cast iron C. Case

Cadillac 12.    368 cu. ins.    920 LBS

Cadillac 16.    452 " "    1105 LBS


The vacuum control and startix both seem to be expiring. Cadillacs have started up quite a considerable supercharge campaign. Am sending you a drawing of the antifriction plates in the Chrysler Spring.
It is noticeable how stickey the Bentley steering gets with normal oil in cold weather. It is seven below zero today
  
  


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