Choice between Dunlop and Rudge-Whitworth wheels for the Goshawk project.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\4\ scan0031 | |
| Date | 7th June 1922 | |
| To BJ. from R. {Sir Henry Royce} c. to CJ. c. to HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Roy. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} X3599 R3/M7.6.22. GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) WHEELS. X. 3599. With reference to your memo. to E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} (BJ10/H2.6.22.) I understand that Dunlops are prepared to take the same price. Rudge-Whitworth must of necessity be more difficult to tighten sufficiently to avoid movement, whatever they swear. I should prefer the greater simplicity, but not at the loss of efficiency - if both simplicity and £10,000 it is a very tempting to risk some delay and order from hand to mouth. R. {Sir Henry Royce} | ||
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).