After all... I looked up different combinations and found 9 (!) hits for "bench and road tests" (sometimes only word order is different between German and English) - like:
Context: Overview of the HIPERCOMBATS Project
Bench and road tests to check components strength. Road tests for suspension set trimming. The empirical formulas basically are scale coefficients to be ...
http://www.cerfacs.fr/algor/Projects/HIPERCOMBATS/overview.h... Context: Immigration to Canada interview
We attached over 100 sensors to their bus, and did a few hundred bench and road
tests to see where the noise is coming from and how to reduce it. ...
http://www.unclepasha.com/training/automotive_engineer.htm Context: Experimental and dynamic study of the piston rod lateral friction ... carrying out bench and road tests by National Key Lab-. oratory for Vibration, Shock and Noise, Shanghai Jiao. Tong University are greatly appreciated. ...
http://iospress.metapress.com/index/DR5DL1472UDL6H2G.pdf 
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