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Accident report for a Bentley car, model 3-B-1V.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 113\1\  scan0171
Date  25th September 1934
  
Y4199
To D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /L. From Ir.
c.c. to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}

Ir.6/MJ.25.9.34.

ACCIDENT TO BENTLEY CAR 3-B-1V.

Herewith particulars of mishap I had with the above car on Saturday afternoon, the 22nd. inst., when running into Warrington.

It was raining at the time and I was proceeding in a stream of traffic at 30/35 M.P.H. when the car in front of me slowed down. On the application of my brakes, the car skidded badly, turned round almost immediately through 180°, and struck the front car. The offside rear mud guards of the two cars came into collision whilst a lorry proceeding in the opposite direction bumped the spare wheel cover.

On examination of the road surface afterwards a good deal of oil was spread about. This, together with the fact that I was near the tramlines accounts for the skid.

Ir.
  
  
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