Secrecy concerns around using outside coachbuilders for the 'Seagull' project.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\4\ scan0013 | |
| Date | 1st February 1923 | |
| To BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from BJ. -2- BJ5/H1.2.23 This should be neither a long nor expensive matter in the waywe want it finished. If we did the work in London we should probably get two coachbuilding carpenters to make these things in a couple of days, but we do not want to have it done by outside coachbuilders, in the view of the necessity of secrecy(Aero Engine) concerning the Seagull(Experimental EAC.1 aka Export chassis, Phantom I engine). B.J. COPY | ||
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).