Delay in completing a generator and ongoing experiments with commutators for the 4-Goshawk-11.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 50\5\ Scan088 | |
| Date | 1st July 1922 | |
| R. {Sir Henry Royce} from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X 4333 X4333 DYNAMO FOR 4-Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))-11. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 2/LG3.7.22. It will be a week or 10 days before we shall have a completed generator with built up mica commutator. Experiments are being made on the bench, bursting moulded commutators but we are not building any more machines of this type of commutator. 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).