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).
Instructing a hold on the current Goshawk Spring Drive design in favour of a superior new one.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\J\December1922\ Scan41 | |
| Date | 27th December 1922 | |
| TO BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} FROM R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to CJ. BJ. WOR.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ORIGINAL R3/M27.12.22. RE. GOSHAWK SPRING DRIVE. X42222 We have seen sufficient of the possibilities to promise you in the course of a few days the new design; as there appear to be no difficult pieces to produce, we want you to hold up the present design immediately, because we believe the new one will prove so vastly superior. Since writing the above the new design is almost as perfect as we know how to make it, and will certainly be sent this week. R.{Sir Henry Royce} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} DEC 29 1922 RECEIVED | ||