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).
The circumstances of a vehicle incident involving a tree and skids.
Identifier | Morton\M10\ img069 | |
Date | 20th April 1928 guessed | |
2 road onto the outside camber. The tree is in exactly the position one would probably be in after a couple of violent skids, that is 120 to 150 yards from the corner. The whole scene would instinctively make one say "Error of judgment" accentuated by the road conditions. The tree leans at about 15º and is 1ft in dia. at the very bottom, it and the marks on the road where the front half of the car came to rest after 25-30 yards from the tree show what | ||