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).
From H.S. Royce requesting a spare Goshawk block for a Kestrel Six Cylinder No.2 engine with specific valve requirements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\4\ Scan095 | |
| Date | 1st August 1933 | |
| To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Ryce. 84659 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Ryce.10/MJ.1.8.33. KESTREL SIX CYLINDER NO.2. Will you please prepare a spare Goshawk block for this engine complete with N.L.C. valve seats and sodium cooled stellited tulip exhaust valves in K.E.965 or H.R.Crown and standard inlet valves. All rubber for the six cylinder units should be high temperature resisting. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /H.S.Royce. | ||