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 preparation of Mr. Royce's Goshawk for trials, ensuring it has a smart appearance for demonstration and press photography.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 53\1\ Scan078 | |
| Date | 29th September 1922 | |
| C O P Y. To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. BJ6/H29.9.22. Re. Mr. Royce's Goshawk for Trials. We telephoned the following message to your Office this morning, and asked you to discuss the matter with Bs. {A J. Barnes - Assistant Manager} , who is at Derby today :- "Please see that the trials Goshawk (Mr. Royce's Goshawk) which you are sending for demonstration here is in good condition in outward appearance or if anything can be done in time to make it better, as we want it to look very smart. If necessary, it would be better to have it sent to London to be varnished or painted at once and send it to Mr. Royce at a later date for him to be photographed in it, as a photograph of Mr. Royce will always get into the press and we have plenty to send to the press at present". B.J. | ||