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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).
Repeated breakage of the Goshawk 11 front axle.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 49\4\  Scan119
Date  15th December 1921
  
X4263
To Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}, from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG15.12.21.

GOSHAWK 11 - FRONT AXLE. X4263

The breakage of the Goshawk 11. Front Axle was now in any way accidental. We have now broken two more Goshawk 11. front axles, making three in all. The last two axles which have failed have broken near the spring seat on the wheel side.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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