Logistics and body specifications for Goshawk-11 test cars and drivers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan031 | |
| Date | 23th March 1922 | |
| S.G. 189 (SD 998. 15.9.17) M.P. 176549. X4086 Hy. {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} from EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 2/LG23. 3. 22. RE. GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))S. X4086 With reference to your Hy {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} 4/KW22.3.22. CJ. saw me at the Works yesterday afternoon and confirmed what you have reported in the above memo. We are, therefore, now pushing on with the third car 6-Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))-11. and will send the car across with a further driver as soon as complete, about which we will advise you later. As regards the fourth car 7-Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))-11. which is now allotted for the Amateur Test Car. Is this car to be fitted with the Saloon Body as originally intended or to be fitted with the body made for the Amateur Car. I am assuming that it will be the latter but am writing BJ. to confirm this. As regards Appleby, he is now in London preparing pass-ports so as to be ready to go any time, but in view of your memo. we do not propose to send him now until we send the third driver with 6-Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))-11. unless we hear from you, in the meantime, to the contrary. EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} | ||
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).