Discussion comparing the steering performance of the Goshawk and 40/50 models during road tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan262 | |
| Date | 22th May 1922 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- by the water boiling, it is very desirable that a car should be tried in a really hilly country during the hot weather, for instance, if you repeated the run we did around LePuy, the engine would most certainly boil. I think it would be an excellent thing if you could fix up with our Paris people to bring a 40/50 car down to Laval and for you to run it over the same roads as the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)). One point which we are very anxious to know is whether the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) steering is very much worse than the 40/50 steering over similar roads. At the present time the argument is, that there is no reason why the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) should be any different than the 40/50 as regards steering. I consider the expense in taking a 40/50 to Laval would be very well worth it in order for you to be able to state definitely that the steering on the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) is, or is not, worse than the 40/50. ( We should also like to know whether the 40/50 does bump on to the buffers in front as much as the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) ). Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||
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).