Ignition options for the Goshawk I engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\5\ Scan141 | |
| Date | 1st February 1921 | |
| X3485 GENL D (DD-2-11 AM.H.2).T(m).A.2.S S To HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} Copy to O.I. [Strikethrough] E.W.C. R10/G15/2/21. X3485 RE "GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) I" - IGNITION. X4275 X3481 I do not think it would be good to put on the Bosch (American) ignition until Clark has tested this. I should prefer to fit a set of Delco, but with a good magneto slave type of which will fire the engine at very slow speed, as the Watford or B.T.H. I do not see any object in fitting battery ignition. We do not want to spend any more on this model than enough to make just a few of these run well to compare with "Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) II" with its somewhat different construction. R. {Sir Henry Royce} [Signature] | ||
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).