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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).
Request for information from Bleriot Ltd. on fitting a sample A.T. Speedometer to a Goshawk II chassis.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 50\4\  Scan004
Date  17th January 1921
  
X.4308

To Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /TMW2/LG17.1.21. N

X.4306 SPEEDOMETER FOR GOSHAWK II

Messrs. Bleriot Ltd., are supplying us with a sample A.T. Speedometer which we intend fitting on the above chassis.
Will you be good enough, therefore, to advise us, when possible, on the following points:-

1. Speed of flexible shaft in R.P.M. at a given road speed in M.P.H.

2. Lengths of flexible cable required.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /TMW.
  
  


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