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Notes on Goshawk engine steering and fan modifications.


Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\I\September1922\  Scan26
Date  28th September 1934
  
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(15) GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)). STEERING.

This at present is better on the rebound than on the bump and could be corrected by shortening the pendulum lever.

(16) GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) FAN.

The production Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))s should be fitted with a larger fan nearer to the radiator - see LeC

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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