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).
Responding to a request for an Autovac for the Goshawk 11 car, advising it is currently fitted to a car that will be brought for examination.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 40\4\ Scan038 | |
| Date | 1st September 1921 | |
| X3579 Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X4219 (crossed out) X3579 GOSHAWK 11. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/LG3.9.21. With reference to your request for the Autovac. The only one we have of this type is at present fitted to the car. We shall be bringing the car to W.W. next week when you will have the opportunity of examining it. The D.O. at Derby has given us a scheme for the position of the Autovac and the piping. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||