Apology from Wakefield's for mistakenly referring to the 20-HP model in their price list.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 32\3\ Scan065 | |
| Date | 16th March 1922 | |
| To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ) from B.J. BJ10/H16.3.22. X1583 WAKEFIELD'S OIL AND GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)). Mr. Fisher of Wakefield's called on me to-day to apologise for their having referred to the 20-h.p. in their price list. He said it was due to his having been away ill, and that both he and his son knew that the 20-h.p. ought not to have been mentioned, but that someone else in the firm published the catalogue who did not know the necessity for secrecy(Aero Engine). I had evidently misunderstood him on the telephone previously, when I understood him to say that neither he nor his son had been told of the necessity for secrecy(Aero Engine). B.J. [Stamp: RECEIVED HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} MAR 17 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).