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Confirmation of a telegram regarding the slow running performance of a Goshawk Two engine.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 74\2\  scan0034
Date  5th October 1921
  
X4387
CONFIRMATION OF TELEGRAM TELEPHONED TO CHICHESTER.
5th October, 1921.
[Handwritten] X4387
[Handwritten and crossed out] X4228
ROYCAR DERBY.
HIVES
IS THE SLOW RUNNING ON GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) TWO SUFFICIENTLY GOOD ON THE ORDINARY LOW SPEED JET SO THAT PILOT CAN BE ARRANGED FOR STARTING ONLY.
ELLIOTT.
[Stamp: RECEIVED with a clock face inside a triangle]
  
  
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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