Instructing staff to mislabel new car chassis and engine drawings to mislead outsiders into believing they are for new aero engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan011 | |
| Date | 5th November 1919 | |
| Initial and pass on Mr Furner Mr James Mr Mee A.T. T G.S. RBP Roy {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} S. OK. D36/DL5.11.19. X.1775 I am requested by Mr. Claude Johnson to advise you that we are not to refer to chassis at all. He instructs me to circulate as follows : All drawings for the 6-cylinder new 50 H.P.chassis should be marked "Vulture(Experimental 6 CYL OHV LONG STROKE / Aero Engine) Engine", so that outsiders may be under the impression that it is a new Aero engine. For the same reasons, the 12 cylinder is to be called the "Buzzard(Aero Engine) Engine" and the 20 H.P. chassis the "Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) Engine". Will you kindly advise your assistants of this. J.D. | ||
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).