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).
Notes discussing an accident, speed estimations, and a clutch failure investigation.
| Identifier | Morton\M10\ img070 | |
| Date | 20th April 1928 guessed | |
| 3 a colossal biff it- must have had. R.{Sir Henry Royce} is most upset- about the accident. He seems to think that Grylls letter was an insult-to his intelligence, also that 50. M.P.H. is a ludicrous estimate of the speed, but my impression is that the actual skid might-have occurred at- 55. M.P.H. We have had clutch trouble. In the rush the clutch was apparently erected without oil. The latch spigot that- slides within the ball race was rusty & a tight fit- | ||