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Volume 3, Issue 10
1 October 1931
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| October 01 1931

The Rolls‐Royce Racing Engine: A Description of the Experimental and Development Work Involved in its Evolution

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1931
Aircraft Engineering (1931) 3 (10): 244–246.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb029458

THE following is a brief description of the engines prepared by Messrs. Rolls‐Royce, Ltd., for the 1931 Schneider Trophy Race, with an indication of the sort of work that has to go into their development, and the test tackle, etc., required.

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