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).
Options for updating the bodywork on car 4-Goshawk-11 to fit a new radiator, bonnet and dashboard.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 77\4\ scan0265 | |
| Date | 21th August 1922 | |
| y4240 To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to CJ. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG21.8.22. 4-Goshawk-ll. X4240 X4270 In bringing 4-Goshawk-ll up-to-date, we wish to fit the latest type radiator, bonnet and dashboard. This will mean a serious alteration to the scuttle. We wonder whether you are entirely satisfied with the body on 4-Goshawk-ll We think that as the car, when it is completed, is likely to be a model of the Goshawks for sometime to come, it would be better to have a body in which there was more room on the front seats. We should like to know whether you wish us to have 4-Goshawk-ll altered to suit the new dashboard, or whether you prefer to have another body made to be more suitable as regards dimensions and also as regards colour of the upholstery. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||