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).
Accident report for car 24-EX detailing a four-wheel skid on the Ashbourne Road.
| Identifier | Morton\M10\ img141 | |
| Date | 27th May 1931 | |
| D/L. From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 74199. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/MJ.27.5.31. ACCIDENT TO 24-EX. On Saturday the 23rd.inst., at about 9.15 p.m. I was coming towards Derby on the Ashbourne Rd. It was raining slightly at the time and the roads were wet. Just after I passed Markeaton Hall gates the car got into a four wheel skid. It struck a tree on the right hand side of the road with the front bumper and the rear part of the car hit a telegraph post on the side of the road, breaking it off. There was no traffic on the road at the time and I was travelling at about 50 m.p.h. I attribute the skidding to the fact that the whole of Ashbourne Road had been treated with a top dressing of gravel, but this dressing finished on the bend at the Borough Boundary (Markeaton Gates) and it was about 40 or 50 yds. past there where the car skidded. The rear tyres, one was worn smooth and the other had very little tread. I telephoned to the service man to help get the car in but owing to the fact that the car was supporting the telegraph post the P.O. people would not let it be moved until the breakdown gang arrived on Sunday morning. I was alone in the car at the time. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||