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).
Discontinuing the use of names for aero engines in favour of numerical designations.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan266 | |
Date | 8th December 1925 | |
Mor. B. Sy. -days- Expt. ENT. MS. Re/EST. X1775 RgT/W8.12.25 AERO ENGINE NAMES. I give below copy of BJS/H4.12.25:- "Kindly arrange, in corresponding with the Ministry, *for all reference to our engines to be by numbers, such as *'Rolls-Royce E.XVI', 'Rolls-Royce G.III', 'Rolls-Royce F.X.' The names 'Eagle', 'Condor' and 'Falcon' should be *discontinued." Will you please arrange accordingly. Rg.{Mr Rowledge} | ||