Letter from the father of the engineer who perished with Sir Henry Segrave discussing a suitable memorial.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\5\ img022 | |
| Date | 20th January 1931 guessed | |
| only a fitting tribute to his memory. I write as the father of the young Engineer who perished with Sir Henry Segrave in 'Miss England II' on Lake Windermere in June last while in charge of Rolls-Royce engines, & I feel it will also be remembered we supplied the family of R.R. engines with which Lt-Waghorn won the Schneider('R' Aero Engine winner of 1939 Schneider Throphy) Trophy for Gr {George Ratcliffe} Britain in 1929. Surely - he deserves a suitable memorial stone where he lays in Porkahead Church-yard. The memory of Sir Henry Segrave will be appropriately kept alive by the 'Segrave Memorial Fund' (when proclaimed) & who would have been the first, (had he lived) to honour the one who willingly assisted him to break a world's record - but which ended so disastrously to both. | ||
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).