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Accident report detailing a collision involving an experimental Bentley car.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 138\3\  scan0487
Date  20th October 1941
  
To: D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /L. from Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
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Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 5/h. 20.10.41.

ACCIDENT REPORT.

A truck, driven by Mr. G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} JOHNSON, of 20 LYCOTT GROVE, EAST DULWICH, registration Number BGH 911, backed into 9BV, the experimental Bentley car which I was driving on Saturday, October 18th at 12.45 p.m.

Mr. Johnson is working for Wiggs & Son., S.E.15.

Damage sustained was a buckled wing and a bent head-lamp and radiator.

Derbyshire P.C. No. 70 witnessed the accident. My car was stationary at the time.

Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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).


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