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).
Extract from a letter discussing the cause of an accident involving car 15-EX, attributing it to a potential brake issue.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 181\M10\ img045 | |
| Date | 29th March 1928 | |
| CWB14/RK3.4.28. ACCIDENT TO 15-EX. Extract from letter from PN.{Mr Northey} to CWB. 29.3.28. Grand Hotel, Monte Carlo. .......... From the beginning I wrote that the steering on 15-EX was at the higher speeds, unselective and tendency to wander, but this characteristic would not account, in my opinion, for the two reported skidding incidents with you and Grylls, who are both highly skilled drivers. As I have already written, in connection with this affair, I feel that some additional influence must at times been at work, such as a binding differential on one set of brake shoes on one wheel. I feel strongly about this and should like the point carefully gone into. Such skids, which cannot be controlled, cannot happen, fortunately, with a normally functioning car Q.E.D........... | ||