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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).
Reporting a car accident and requesting replacement parts.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 5a\3\  03-page239
Date  26th May 1933
  
X5840

Hotel de France.
Chateauroux.
Indre.
26.5.33.

To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
From G.W.H.

18. G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} IV.

We herewith enclose report of an accident H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} R.{Sir Henry Royce} Clark has had with the car.

We shall require a new front axle and cross steering tube, one front road spring N.S. The axle is bent in the centre approx. 30°. All the spring leaves have got a double bend. There does not appear to be any other vital parts damaged.

[Signature]

G.W.H.
  
  


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