Requesting a car swap and providing feedback on the Goshawk's engine performance and steering modifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\4\ Scan161 | |
| Date | 10th August 1922 | |
| X4263 To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} c. to CJ. X.4264 X.4219. X.4263. R2/M10.8.22. I shall be away next Monday and Tuesday, but hope you or a driver will bring me a 4-seater RR. - quiet running - on Wednesday or Thursday, and take 4-Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine))-11 to London for Mr. Cowen's catalogue requirements. No.4. Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) is running consistently well at 24 to 25 m.p.g of National Benzole mixture plus equal quantity of No.1. Shell, but after it is warm, running slowly and light it is not very good. I hope fresh Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) will have rockers without rollers and radius rods to front axle - see other memo. on steering. 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).