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).
Potential fatal flaws in the Goshawk car and the need for pre-production modifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 119\2\ scan0162 | |
| Date | 15th December 1921 | |
| contd:- -2- Hsl/LG15.12.21. ************** steering levers, pendulum levers and a very large number of front springs. The failures on the front part of the car may cause a death. We do not suggest that the Goshawk car, even the original one we are running about would not run 10,000 miles without failure. The condition we are afraid of is that trouble might develop in three or four years time when the cars have run over bad roads on the Continent or in America. Any modifications made now to Goshawk 11. will not cause any delay and very little expense, but once we get started on production, it will be serious. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} (upside down text) R.R. 286B (100) (T) (S.H. 798. 10-12-20) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2948 | ||