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Short memo discussing an assessment of Cody's 120 HP six-cylinder Austro-Daimler Engine.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 21\1\  Scan003
Date  21th October 1912
  
W.M.
FHR6/1210C12
[STAMP: RECEIVED 25 OCT 1912]
[Handwritten: Ref Warrall]
[Handwritten: Mr Johnson]
COPY
GRAND HOTEL DU CANADEL.
Par Le Lavandou, (VAR),
21st October 1912.
From F.H.R. for T.C.
Re Cody's 120 h.p. six-cylinder Austro-Daimler Engine.
Mr Barrington's memo ref. TBB4/L141012.
I quite agree, it is very good indeed but nothing wonderful.
This shows that generally speaking a first class job on orthodox lines seems preferable to freaks.
F.H.R.
[Handwritten in margin: X1056]
  
  
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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