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).
Discussion comparing the steering performance of the Goshawk and 40/50 models during road tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan262 | |
| Date | 22th May 1922 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- by the water boiling, it is very desirable that a car should be tried in a really hilly country during the hot weather, for instance, if you repeated the run we did around LePuy, the engine would most certainly boil. I think it would be an excellent thing if you could fix up with our Paris people to bring a 40/50 car down to Laval and for you to run it over the same roads as the Goshawk. One point which we are very anxious to know is whether the Goshawk steering is very much worse than the 40/50 steering over similar roads. At the present time the argument is, that there is no reason why the Goshawk should be any different than the 40/50 as regards steering. I consider the expense in taking a 40/50 to Laval would be very well worth it in order for you to be able to state definitely that the steering on the Goshawk is, or is not, worse than the 40/50. ( We should also like to know whether the 40/50 does bump on to the buffers in front as much as the Goshawk ). Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||