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Recommendation for a Michelin 'Flirt' jack for the Goshawk-11 car.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 26\6\  Scan007
Date  1st September 1922
  
To BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
C. to EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}
C. to Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} (Sales).

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Hsl/LG5. 9.22.

JACK FOR GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))-11 CAR.

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The Jack we recommend for Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))-11 is the
Michelin Jack known by the code word "Flirt" - made for
1,000 kilos. This Jack will enable a wheel with complete
inflated tyre to be fitted when the car is jacked up off the
wheel with a bare rim.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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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