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).
Delay in the construction of a Hooper Body for Goshawk Chester.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan084 | |
| Date | 21th February 1922 | |
| S/W Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3730 C20/C21.2.22. RECEIVED FEB 22 Re Hooper Body for Goshawk Chester. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/LG20.2.22. X3730 The trouble about this job has been that the body was held up for many details by West WitteringHenry Royce's home town, and Hoopers have had a very short time indeed to get the body constructed, so that at this date it is not so far forward as it ought to be to enable them to turn it out in two days. The best they can do, by making superhuman efforts, is to turn it over to you on the 6th, and if you want it a day or so later than the 27th they could manage with it on the 1st March and let you have it on the 6th. You will notice the week-end comes in the middle. This is not Hoopers fault, and their Works Manager promises to let you have it by hook or by crook on the 6th. C.W. | ||