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).
Recovery of a damaged vehicle and an itemized list of damages following an accident.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 181\M10\ img161 | |
| Date | 14th August 1924 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- Monsieur Jean Beauvais, Bureau de Poste et Telegraphe, Vignoux sur Barangeon, Cher. We could not get the car out last night, so we removed all the papers from it and returned here. We took 9-PK over this morning, fetched Crofts and Shepard back here, and with the assistance of a local garage staff got the car out. We could not obtain a railway wagon for it until Saturday, so have left the car in the garage at Vierzon until then, when it will be put on the rail to Paris. Fortunately no one else but ourselves was concerned, or injured in the accident, and no property damaged. We had no interference from the Police - in fact we did not see them at all. We were informed by one of the crowd that a 'gendarme' had been down to the car and taken something off which looked as if it was made of aluminium. The only thing missing off the car is the aluminium case we use for Trip Sheets. He has apparently appropriated this thinking he has got all the papers concerning the car, as the case was full of Trip Sheets. The damage to the car is considerable, and includes the following :- Both front springs broken. Front axle slightly bent and torn off springs. N.S. dumb iron buckled under. N.S. frame member buckled in where spare wheel carrier is fitted. Radiator and bonnet badly bent. Rear half of torque tube slightly bent. O.S. rear axle tube slightly bent. Rear axle ripped off N.S. rear spring. Steering wheel broken. All wings smashed up. Both running boards and all step irons bent. Windscreen ripped right off. Scuttle badly bent in. N.S. rear door broken off. Body work bent all over. Side steering tube bent. --------------------- | ||