Complaining about the excessive weight of the Goshawk II Maythorn limousine body on a 20HP chassis.
| Identifier | Morton\M21\ img016 | |
| Date | 1st September 1925 | |
| TO HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM R. {Sir Henry Royce} Copy to OJ. R4/M1.9.25. 7. GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 11. I have repeatedly cursed the body on this car, and think it would be an everlasting disgrace to the 20HP., if we sold the car with such a body in its present state. It is too heavy, and especially top heavy.- (Maythorn limousine.) 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).