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Visit to West Wittering with the Goshawk 11 car and updates on engine improvements.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 33\2\  Scan053
Date  15th November 1921
  
X1698

To R. {Sir Henry Royce} from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
c. to CJ.

X4329

GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 11.
VISIT TO WEST WITTERING(Henry Royce's home town).

Hgs/LG15.11.21.
X4219
X1698

My. and myself propose coming to W.W. with Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 11. arriving there on Wednesday morning the 23rd. inst.

The car is now considerably improved from when you last tried it. We have now fitted the engine with a proper friction damper. This is overcoming practically all the rattles which were in the 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).


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