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).
Newspaper clipping about the fatal water speed record attempt by Sir Henry Segrave.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\5\ img182 | |
| Date | 14th June 1930 | |
| Top Banner (fragment): ...prospect was very promising... personal aspects, and undoubtedly... Column 1: "break the record” and then became unconscious again. He was taken ashore to a private house, while I got back in Freeman’s launch to get away and change my wet clothes. LADY SEGRAVE PRESENT TO THE END. Mr. A.{Mr Adams} R.{Sir Henry Royce} Pox, who is vice-commodore of the Windermere Motor Boat Club, and was with Sir Henry Segrave when he died, said last night:— “We carried him up to the house on a temporary stretcher. He was attended by three doctors, who found that the right thigh was broken, that the ribs were broken on the right side, and that one rib had punctured the right lung, which caused haemorrhage. “Lady Segrave had watched the start from the shore, and walked three or four hundred yards up the shore to meet us. She was with Sir Henry to the end. Sir Henry remained conscious until within a minute of his death. He kept asking if he had broken the world’s record. Lady Segrave told him that he had, and later she was able to tell him what his best time was. Sir Henry was in great pain, but he bore it wonderfully, and throughout it all he assured Lady Segrave that he was all right. He died at 7.15. “Before he went out for the attack on the record he remarked jocularly to his friends that it was Friday the 13th, and he wondered what would happen. He discussed with me what would happen if they got thrown into the water, because the water, he said, would be as hard as a board.” SURVIVOR'S STORY. "WE KNEW ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN, BUT WE WERE TAKING THE RISK." Willcocks, the only survivor, was seen by the Press Association correspondent at Bowness, last night. He was in a bedroom in the Old England Hotel where Sir Henry stayed. The hotel overlooks the whole of Windermere. Willcocks was unaware of Sir Henry’s death. When told that the world’s speed record had been broken, he said: “Well, I am certain my friend Halliwell will have gone happily, knowing… Column 2: ...the engine." “on either,” she said "no needier to the day. "I have never known any real wish to look at Miss England closely. I am not sure that I like her." SEARCH FOR MISSING BODY. HALLIWELL'S WIFE A WITNESS OF THE ACCIDENT. The police are dragging for Halliwell’s body, but as the lake is from 150 to 200 feet deep at this point their task seems difficult. Mr. V.{VIENNA} Halliwell, whose wife accompanied him to the Lake District for the trials, and saw the accident, had been with the Rolls-Royce Company in Derby for five years. He was extremely popular in the works. An engineer’s tuner, engaged in the experimental department, he was regarded as a clever mechanic, familiar in particular with high-speed engines. He and his wife, whose parents are in the Bristol district, had resided in Chellaston, near Derby. They have a boy aged two and a half years. Mr. Willcocks was picked up by the boat of Major Pattinson, the clerk of the course, and Lord Rochdale, in Miss Lambton, undertook the search for Mr. Halliwell. FATHER'S DASH TO WINDERMERE. Immediately on hearing that his son had been seriously injured in Sir Henry Segrave’s… Photo Captions: MR. VICTOR HALLIWELL (Deceased) MR. WILLCOCKS (Injured) Photos: "Lancashire Daily Post." Main Photo Caption: SIR HENRY SEGRAVE, LADY SEGRAVE, AND LORD WAKEFIELD Photos: "The Lancashire Daily Post." Handwritten Note: Lancashire Daily | ||