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).
Body options and testing considerations for the 7-GOSHAWK-11 'Amateur Test Car' chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan043 | |
| Date | 27th March 1922 | |
| W/S. C. from EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} X4086 EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}2/LG27.3.22. Re. 7-GOSHAWK-11 "AMATEUR TEST CAR" X4086 X3730 With further reference to our memo. EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}1/LG23.3.22. and to your telephonic communication today. We are in a position that this chassis can be built up suitable for an open car or for the enclosed driver limousine which we understood originally was to be fitted by Maythorns of Biggleswade. If you think it is immaterial which body is fitted and the question of the time taken to complete the car after delivery of the chassis is the same in each case, we rather think that the originally totally-enclosed body should be used as we take it that this body has been specially made as a standard Goshawk body and should therefore, be tested out for 10,000 miles running in the same way as the chassis. We have then three types of body - All-weather (Cabriolet) 5-Goshawk-ll. Open body 6-Goshawk-ll. Totally enclosed body 7-Goshawk-ll. Time and completion of the car is, of course, of vital importance. We would like you therefore, to confirm the fact as regards time and completion that it will be the same which ever body is fitted also have not Sales Dept. got some special desire for the testing out of special type bodies? Having considered these two points, please let us have your further recommendations. The steering in both cases will be the "D" steering, but if the body is to be fitted, please let us contd:- | ||