Typed memorandum regarding amateur drivers, a Goshawk chassis, and testing a Cabriolet body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan200 | |
| Date | 5th August 1922 | |
| X.3730. S/W {Sales / Derby Works} C2/C5.8.22. AMATEUR-DRIVEN GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 1/LGS.3.22. X.4086. X.3730 I will ask CJ. to decide this point. I note, however, you would like it back at the beginning of September. With regard to the other Amateur drivers, you will have received a report from Bk. {A. Birkett - Commercial Manager} by now. Major Hodges, who was the third driver, has not yet returned - I think he must be taking a further week, and I have not heard from him. I am leaving a note for him to send you a report as soon as he arrives, and also the fourth driver, Mr. Northey's brother. We have not tried a Cabriolet on the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) chassis and Brakers are building a 4-door type Cabriolet on rather a different principle. If possible we should like to test it on a live chassis - at the moment it is being fitted on to a dummy. Would you like to put it on the Amateur-driven Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) instead of the present Limousine, and testit for a bit? Perhaps you will let me know if this proposal is of interest to you and I will endeavour to fix up accordingly as it would be very useful to us. C. | ||
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