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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).
Report concluding an investigation into a vehicle accident, attributing the cause to a broken centre bolt and not the 4-wheel brakes.

Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\L\July1924-September1924\  Scan58
Date  30th August 1924 guessed
  
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We consider that from the 19th. to the 26th. the car was run with the centre bolt broken and the front spring was not properly held.

From the evidence we cannot attribute the accident to 4-wheel brakes.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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