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Accident report for car 16-G4 detailing a collision with a Renault.


Identifier  Morton\M10\  img143
Date  19th January 1932
  
D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /L. From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 2/MWJ.19.1.32.

ACCIDENT TO 16-G4.

Damage to Off-side Front Wing & Possibly to Dumb Iron.

Whilst going down Addison Rd., towards Osmaston Rd., this morning, this car was run into at the cross roads to the car park by a Renault belonging to Mr. Welsh.

16-G4. was stationary with the front about 1/3 across the cross road, when the Renault travelling much faster hit the off-side front wing, turning 16-G4 round which was again hit by the Renault's back wing - the latter car coming to rest about 30 feet further down the road.

Driver H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Grylls.
Passenger J.Pepper.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /H.Grylls.
  
  
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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