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).
Rear window design compromises and high pricing from coachbuilders for a Goshawk model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan308 | |
| Date | 28th April 1923 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- conditions will decide; the rear windows would be small and not to open because of the wheel races(this trouble cannot be avoided without making a high roof and seats which would spoil the beauty of the whole ting). There is also the extremely high price charged to us by the firstclass coachbuilders. I am suspicious that this may be intentional, so we cannot comete and supply a complete car. I hear they make us demand £500 for open body and completion for a Goshawk, and force Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Weston elsewhere, i.e. perhaps to second-rate builders or themselves. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||