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Incident where an experimental car went into a ditch due to a steering lever breakage.


Identifier  Morton\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).


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