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).
The approval and design for a luggage grid on the Goshawk model, including relocation of the spare wheel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\4\ scan0159 | |
| Date | 11th March 1922 | |
| X3524 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. } Copies to GF } BJ10/H11.3.22. GOSHAWK. X3524 With reference to the drawing of the suggested luggage grid on Goshawk, attached, discussed at the conference at the Works on the 8th. I understand you will endeavour to obtain approval from H.R. that a luggage grid shall be immediately designed by our coachbuilders which can be used so that the wheel may be removed when necessary to enable the luggage to go right up to the top of the body. The wheel could, on such occasions, be carried at the side of the car. It is very important for us to receive permission to put this matter in hand as soon as possible, as the bodies are now being built. Therefore will you kindly cable us from Le CanadelHenry Royce's French residence as soon as Mr. Royce has given his approval? B. J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} ENCL. [STAMP] Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} RECEIVED MAR 13 1922 | ||