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).
To hold drilling on Goshawk II brake shoes and straps due to considering a different type of rivet.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5\3\ 03-page058 | |
| Date | 15th May 1922 | |
| Fwd. from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. M.I. c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. M D'Arth. X4257 RECEIVED HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 18 MAY 1922 BYS-F15.5.22. GOSHAWK ll. BRAKE SHOE. G.50884, and BRAKE STRAPS G.50885/6. Owing to the fact that we are considering using a different type of rivet will you kindly hold up drilling of the above parts for the present. Will Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}, for whom we are getting two gross of the drawn brass tubular rivets with solid ends, arrange as soon as the Works start, to have a number of brake shoes fixed on the straps with the improved rivet. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||