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).
Secret memo from CJ to Hs regarding potential issues with a new engine and plans to test a chassis in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\4\ scan0086 | |
| Date | 31th December 1923 | |
| To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from CJ. SECRET. X9770 CJ8/E31.12.23. X.9680 X.9770 With reference to the new engine, you say that there are parts which you think will give trouble and which need alteration and that it is not reasonable to suppose that we can replace the an engine which has been in service for 16 years at short notice. What are the parts which are likely to give trouble? I understood from R.{Sir Henry Royce} that the engine was very largely a repetition on a larger scale of the Goshawk engine and that he considered that we ought to push it into manufacture at the earliest possible date and that it was quite good enough as it was. I presume that you are in any case pushing forward a chassis fitted with the new engine and the new brakes for PN.{Mr Northey} to take to the South of France in January? CJ. | ||