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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).
Experimental car incident caused by a steering lever failure.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 67\4\  scan0206
Date  9th November 1926
  
+2430
To D/L. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
Hsl/LG9.11.26.
+4195
Replying to D/L11/B8.11.26. Owing to a breakage in the steering lever, an experimental car did go into the ditch on the Fosse Road on Oct. 22nd.
There may have been slight damage to the hedge.
Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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