Modifications to the Goshawk frame, including new brackets, improved cross members, and trussing.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\K\October1923\ Scan125 | |
| Date | 13th October 1923 | |
| ORIGINAL TO BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} FROM R. {Sir Henry Royce} HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to CJ. BJ. IHS. RE. GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) FRAME. 44260 44604 We have in hand new frame brackets for the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) chassis, for carrying the body. The present frame brackets were only intended to carry the weight of a complete unit body. The new frame brackets are intended to help to strengthen a badly constructed body by means of our frame. We are also carrying out improvements to cross members for Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) to increase the torsion-al stiffness of the frame. We think the simple original trussing is all that we can do practically, the other schemes are scarcely practical or ugly. 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).