Incident where an experimental car went into a ditch due to a steering lever breakage.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 181\M10\ img120 | |
| Date | 9th November 1926 | |
| X4199 To D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /L. from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 1/LG9.11.26. X4199 X8430 Replying to D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /L11/B3.11.26. 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} | ||
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).