Amateur drivers for the Goshawk model and a proposal to test a new Barker Cabriolet body on it.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan378 | |
| Date | 5th August 1922 | |
| S/W {Sales / Derby Works} Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X4086 C2/C5.8.22 Amateur-Driven Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)). Hsl/LGS.3.22. X4086 X3730 I will ask CJ. to decide this point. I note, however, you would like it back at the beginning of September. With regard to the other Amateur drivers, you will have received a report from Bk. {A. Birkett - Commercial Manager} by now. Major Hodges, who was the third driver, has not yet returned - I think he must be taking a further week, and I have not heard from him. I am leaving a note for him to send you a report as soon as he arrives and also the fourth driver, Mr. Northey's brother. We have not tried a Cabriolet on the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) chassis and Barkers are building a 4-door type Cabriolet on rather a different principle. If possible we should like to test it on a live chassis - at the moment it is being fitted on to a dummy. Would you like to put it on the Amateur-driven Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) instead of the present Limousine, and test it for a bit? Perhaps you will let me know if this proposal is of interest to you and I will endeavour to fix up accordingly as it would be very useful to us. C. [STAMP: RECEIVED AUG 9 1922] | ||
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).