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).
Extract from a report detailing a visit to West Wittering regarding the Goshawk II.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\5\ Scan170 | |
| Date | 25th November 1921 | |
| X 3485 Extract from R10/G25.11.21. X.4067 RE VISIT OF MESSRS. HIVES & HALDENBY TO WEST WITTERINGHenry Royce's home town WITH "GOSHAWK II" - 23rd. November, 1921. X.3485 (12) IGNITION WIRE TUBE. The red fibre tube at present on the engine for carrying the high tension wires, is not the very best colour, and as the bakelite micarta tube also is not a very suitable colour and is understood to be easily scratched, I think we should go to a black tube (in fibre or bakelite). (15) INSTRUMENT BOARD. Mr. Hives asks if this could be carried from the dashboard by two brackets, so that the chassis can be completed at the works as far as the wiring and control, and to avoid the necessity of having a man going round to all the coachbuilders for joining up these controls and wires. It was suggested that the instrument board could either be supplied as a plank which the coachbuilders would trim off to suit his particular style of body, or that the instrument board could be made a small affair holding all the instruments and controls, and the coach-builders would put a surround of wood to suit the body. I agree with the principle of the idea, but it is not a good policy in my opinion, to attempt too much at this stage, as we do not know where the instrument board should be exactly, and we wish to leave the chassis as flexible as possible, as we have such a lot of more important work to do at the moment, and I therefore think that we should not attempt too much beyond our 40/50 H.P. practice in this respect, but have promised to make an attempt which Mr. Evernden has in hand. | ||