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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 data on oil and water temperatures with radiator shutters opened and blocked, and a note on a knock.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 1\4\  B001_X 100a-page066
Date  24th November 1932 guessed
  
we obtained the following data
of water temperature

Shutters blocked opened

Max speed Air temp Oil. Water
65 8.5°C 94° 58°
67
69 96°

distance approx 10 miles
With the shutters operating.
Speed Air Oil Water
69 8.5° 104° 77°C
70

It will be seen that the oil
temperature is affected as well
as the water by the opening of
the shutters

We also found that the
knock in the V8 front was
a squawk coming from the
ballend of the damper control
  
  


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