Request for a 'Brown Goshawk' (4-G-11) car to be delivered to the Russell Hotel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 53\2\ Scan125 | |
| Date | 6th September 1924 | |
| X4505 To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} COPY. X4565 X4219 R4/M6.9.24. I should like the Brown Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) (4-G-11) to be at the Russell Hotel by Friday morning, the 19th. inst., preferably fitted with low pressure tyres. The car could be taken to Wolfe's Garage, and the ignition key delivered to the Hotel Russell. R. {Sir Henry Royce} [Watermark: DICKINSON BOND] | ||
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).