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Goshawk I chassis, comparing its flexible engine suspension to other models, and urging for consistent compression ratios.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 182\M21\  img005
Date  27th December 1922
  
R.R. 235a 100 T) (S.H 798. 10-12-20) G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2948

TO HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM R. {Sir Henry Royce}

~~re. 10 H.P. Car.~~

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

ORIGINAL [stamp]
29 XII 1922 [stamp]
RECEIVED [stamp]
X3481 [handwritten]
3535 [handwritten]

RB {R. Bowen} /M27.12.22.

GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 1.

It will be very interesting to us to see this little chassis as soon as convenient for you to send it here, as amongst other things it has the feature of the engine being suspended on an under frame, and will shew us, as in the case of the Hawk(Aero Engine)-Northcliffe, the difference between the rigid suspension of the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)), and the more flexible suspension of Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 1. This point is of the utmost urgency to us at the moment; the compression ratio in both Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))^I and Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 11. should be the same.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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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