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).
Accident report involving test car 19-EX and a horse-drawn cart.
| Identifier | Morton\M10\ img126 | |
| Date | 8th April 1929 | |
| To D/L. from Expl:Dept: X4199 8th. April 1929. ACCIDENT WITH 19-EX. While out on test on car 19-EX, I was driving on the main Ashby-Tamworth road at a speed of approx. 35 m.p.h. when a horse drawing a cart swerved across the road. The only person to witness accident was the father of the driver - he said, the horse took fright at a tar barrel at the side of the road and so got out of control the shaft hitting the body-work of the car, tearing the hood and rear panel. No damage was done to either horse or cart. Below is address of owner of the cart:- Mr. Phizackler, Seckinton, Nr. Tamworth. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/T. Dean. 8.4.29. | ||